[talk-ph] Google Map Maker Power Users Launch

2008-10-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello OSMers (what *do* we call OSM contributors?), I was invited to the Google Map Maker Power Users Launch in Makati Shangri-la yesterday night (October 7). As a background, I've blogged about Google Map Maker vis-a-vis OpenStreetMap a couple of times before:

Re: [talk-ph] National Borders Highway

2008-10-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, Can we agree on the conventions for the values of the admin_level tag for boundary:administrative? Here's one suggestion: 2 - national boundary (mostly applicable to the sea border with Malaysia 4 - provinces 6 - cities and municipalities 8 - districts (like in Manila, Iloilo City) 9

Re: [talk-ph] access tagging on private subdivisions

2008-11-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Zoren, The link I placed means that access=private seems to be accepted for gated communities. There's no access value called Gated_Community. I think you confused the URL #Gated_Community with =Gated_Community. As for getting to know who did what, Click on the (+) button on the right side of

Re: [talk-ph] Trying out Merkaartor

2008-12-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I haven't tried using JOSM because I don't have Java 1.5 on my laptop and couldn't be bothered to install it. :-P But I really like how JOSM is extensible via plugins and some of its nice rectification features (like making a way with many intersections straight). As you mentioned about Potlatch

Re: [talk-ph] Possible sub-project: Routing Test Suite

2008-12-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:13 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: PS. methinks we are getting in a stage where adding just highway:x and name:y would be insufficient anymore ;) There's still plenty of streets in Metro Manila yet to map. But I really think demonstrating

Re: [talk-ph] Cebu tracks.

2008-12-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Yes, you're supposed to trace over your GPX tracks. It's considered bad form in OSM to directly convert tracks into ways. It is laborious, but doing that is a piece of cake compared to how people created maps before the advent of GPS. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com

[talk-ph] Tapping the SkyscraperCity Philippine Forums community

2009-01-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello everyone, I was thinking that maybe we can tap the SkyscraperCity Philippine Forums community (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?s=forumid=295). As far as I am aware, this is the only online community that religiously follows every real estate and infrastructure development in

[talk-ph] People are noticing our work! :-)

2009-01-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hey guys, Check out this recent blog post by what appears to be an expat in Metro Manila. http://www.unorthodoxy.com/2009/01/07/links/ Of course, Eastwood City is highlighted. :-) Eugene / seav -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com ___ talk-ph mailing

Re: [talk-ph] Media Coverage

2009-01-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The problem with OSM is that there's no effective Recent Changes unlike in a text-based Wiki where the diff is institutionalized. We have ITO OSM Mapper to help point out activity, but unless we dig into the data, there's no way to know what has changed, whether a point was added to a way, or a

Re: [talk-ph] Hi Guys and Gals, Open Street Map.

2009-01-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Michael, I think the place points for the towns and cities were imported from the GeoNet Name Server. See this wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Data_import#Geonet_Name_Server And it seems there are indeed errors. One town in the province of Compostela

Re: [talk-ph] Update to Openstreetmap.org.ph

2009-01-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Nice buttons! I'll add them up to some of my websites/blogs. As for the blog, I'd volunteer but I'm already hard-pressed to write for my own blogs that I'm not sure at this point in time if I can commit to writing for yet another blog. Well, I could probably cross-post all of the OSM-related blog

[talk-ph] Breaking up Pasig and Marikina Rivers

2009-01-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, I propose breaking up the Pasig and Marikina Rivers into smaller bits as suggested here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driverbank Maybe in segments of around 5km in length? ~ Eugene / seav -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com

Re: [talk-ph] supporting OSM Philippines and representing OSM Philippines to various orgs.

2009-01-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The OSMF has a plan on having local chapters, somewhat similar in style to the Wikimedia Foundation's chapters. That's the only way we can represent OSM in a legal and official sense. But basing on the currently ongoing plans of setting up a Wikimedia Philippines chapter since 2007, I doubt that

Re: [talk-ph] Magalang disappearing when zooming out

2009-01-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The topic of which labels get priority or not has been discussed often at the main talk mailing list. As far as I know, there's no agreed upon solution yet for tagging for importance especially for settlements. On the other hand, Mapnik renders both labels fine so it must be a rendering issue and

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Philippines meet-up

2009-01-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I'm amenable to both Makati or Ortigas, but since I live closer to Makati, my vote goes there. :-) Can we get a head count of who plans to go as well? 1. Eugene 2. Maning 3. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:56 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Can we firm-up the venue? So far its

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Philippines meet-up

2009-01-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: I'm amenable to both Makati or Ortigas, but since I live closer to Makati, my vote goes there. :-) ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

[talk-ph] First spam in OSM Philippines?

2009-01-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, I came across this contributed way: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/30616863/history Aside from the obvious newbie drawing (doesn't know how to end a way) and tagging (it's both tagged as a primary highway and commercial landuse), the name doesn't seem to be the name of building

Re: [talk-ph] Greetings

2009-01-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello Andre, Welcome! I've taken a look at the Corporation Code of the Philippines ( http://www.chanrobles.com/legal5cc.htm) way before and I think a normal membership-based non-profit structure is the easiest to set-up. The singular problem with setting up a foundation is the 1 million-peso

[talk-ph] Reverting newbie experiments

2009-02-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, I guess it was a matter of chance that I investigated an edit I saw on ITO OSM Mapper on a whim and came across what appears to be an experimental newbie edit on this way: http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/29509693/history Basically, the new user added a bunch of tags to the

Re: [talk-ph] seeing new mappers lately

2009-02-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Wait. Did the too spammish comment came from a new mapper, a new to the Philippine part of the OSM mapper, or somebody else? I think it is a very good message actually. We could tweak it a little. :-) On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:00 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm

[talk-ph] Any nice Java GPS trace logger for Sony Ericsson phones?

2009-02-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, I've been given a sort of demo unit of the Sony Ericsson W760, which has been described as the first Walkman with a GPS antenna. It's got the Google Maps app and the Wayfinder Navigator app pre-installed, but these don't let me record traces. There's a rudimentary log feature in the

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Philippines meet-up

2009-02-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Ah Grappa's in Greenbelt 3. I've been here and I know the open-air balcony you're talking about. :-) Are you sure it'll be quiet? That time I was there, the place was packed. Then again, that was late in the evening. :-) On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: 1)

Re: [talk-ph] Any nice Java GPS trace logger for Sony Ericsson phones?

2009-02-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
trying a few versions if the latest doesn't work. 1.13beta works on my phone, but none of the subsequent ones. Jim Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Wednesday, February 04, 2009 01:15 AM: Hi guys, I've been given a sort of demo unit of the Sony Ericsson W760, which has been described

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Philippines meet-up

2009-02-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
and cinema), and look near the Mac shop you'll find it easily. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure it'll be quiet? That time I was there, the place was packed. Then again, that was late in the evening. :-) At 6pm on a Saturday I'd be willing

Re: [talk-ph] Mapnik weekly rerendering

2009-02-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
It seems that the rendering is done and the Philippines now has reclaimed a huge square-shaped chunk of the South China Sea. China will probably protest. :-P On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:40 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Napansin ko din kahapon. Reports from the main talk says

Re: [talk-ph] First Philippine mapping party

2009-02-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
As I mentioned during the meet-up, Tagaytay would be an excellent place to do this. :-) On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:08 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Now that we have GPS unit from GPS2Go program, and I believe many have their own personal units, I guess we should

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Philippines meet-up

2009-02-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
It was really great meeting everyone last Saturday. Maning essentially gave a good and comprehensive report. A few other points: A mapping party was mentioned. Somewhere accessible from Metro Manila (where most people are) and that is not covered by Yahoo's aerial imagery is a good place. I

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Vacation Offer

2009-02-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I ran this idea among some of my non-OSM friends and acquaintances and they seem interested (tempting is the word). A travel-photoblogger expressed a concern that P25K might not be enough if you really wanted to create a Boracay directory (complete with pictures, contact info, coordinates, etc.

Re: [talk-ph] Capas, Tarlac Coverage

2009-02-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Google Map Maker users couldn't use GPX traces or any other kind of data format including KML. They only rely on the satellite/aerial imagery provided by Google. So they can only copy data by sight from OSM. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: Just curious

Re: [talk-ph] On public domain data in the Philippines

2009-02-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Maning, Please see section 176.1 of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (http://www.chanrobles.com/legal7copyright.htm). It says there: No copyright shall subsist in any work of the Government of the Philippines. However, prior approval of the government agency or office

Re: [talk-ph] Philippine addressing system for OSM

2009-03-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I don't think this is just an OSM-PH problem. If we can create a nice extensible system, we can share it as an addressing standard that can be used by everyone in the Philippines. This begs the question: how do other companies/organizations/DHL/FedEx deal with the addressing mess in the

Re: [talk-ph] Proposed Philippine Postal Code System

2009-03-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Ronny, I'd like to mention some caveats and prior art: 1. The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) has a Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC), which assigns a numeric code to every region, province, city/municipality, and barangay. See http://www.nscb.gov.ph/activestats/psgc/

Re: [talk-ph] An Update from our Side

2009-03-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I've known about Wtmitchell for a while now. (He's also an active Wikipedian contributing to various articles related to the U.S. and the Philippines.) He's listed himself on the members section of the OSM WikiProject Philippines page as based in Boracay:

Re: [talk-ph] State of the Map 2009

2009-03-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I'm actually curious to see last year's slides. :-) As for this year, who wouldn't love to go to Amsterdam? The problem is the moolah. I guess Enthropia is planning to talk about the Boracay mapping project there. The general state of OSM in the Philippines can be included as an intro/addendum.

Re: [talk-ph] topomap digitizing for OSM-PH

2009-03-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Are these maps from NAMRIA? If yes, how sure are you about the copyright status? Remember that Ph government's free of copyright is not public domain. On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:18 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Here's the list of available 1:50K topo map in qct raster

Re: [talk-ph] topomap digitizing for OSM-PH

2009-03-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Coolness! But sorry, I can't help with the rasterization/orthorectification/etc. :-P I'd also like to note that Sacobia River in your sample image is labeled as Sacabia River. Hehehe. On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:18 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: These are the US Bureau of

Re: [talk-ph] GoogleMapMaker data download

2009-04-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's a nice review of sorts of the Google Map Maker data by OpenStreetMapper Mikel Maron: http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/04/01/1391 2009/4/2 maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com Not (yet) for the Philippines though. Satisfied? https://services.google.com/fb/forms/mapmakerdatadownload/

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Information Dissemination in Davao

2009-04-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Great work! Hopefully we can get more contributors from Davao. :-) 2009/4/2 Marloue Pidor mur...@mail2engineer.com here's another article from Davao http://neuralbrew.blogspot.com/ -Original Message- From: maning sambale [emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com] Sent: 4/2/2009 2:33:11 PM To:

[talk-ph] How can we make accessible maps for people with disabilities?

2009-04-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Please check out this comment on my blog: http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/osm_meetup_future_of_mapping#comment_6 I'm familiar with the various accessibility features in web coding (e.g., alt attributes in img elements), but I'm not aware of any such tags or tools for OSM. --

Re: [talk-ph] Relations for LRT/MRT lines

2009-04-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
This is just my opinion. I view relations as data that cannot be easily inferred from other data in the OSM database. The MRT3 ways are connected end-to-end and have the same tags save for the layer, bridge, and tunnel tags, so it can be easily inferred that they constitute one railway. Therefore,

Re: [talk-ph] just a thought OSM Philippines mini-conference

2009-04-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Your proposal doesn't sound like a mini-conference at all. :-) This is a great idea. I'm all for it. On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:29 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, This is just an idea running on my head for a couple of days already. OSM-Philippines mini-conference

[talk-ph] Yahoo!'s satellite imagery in Makati CBD is not good enough

2009-04-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi all, I was doing some cleaning up and some building mapping in the Makati CBD area and I noticed that the satellite imagery in Yahoo! (provided by GeoEye) has some really bad stitching (multiple satellite imagery were stitched into one seamless mosaic). One particularly bad example is that

Re: [talk-ph] Yahoo!'s satellite imagery in Makati CBD is not good enough

2009-04-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:31 PM, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote: 2009/4/9 Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz At 11:26 AM 9/04/2009, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Hi all, I was doing some cleaning up and some building mapping in the Makati CBD area and I noticed that the satellite imagery in Yahoo

Re: [talk-ph] Mystery Building.

2009-04-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I took out my trusty Citiatlas, looked at candidate buildings in the vicinity of Sta. Mesa, picked out Mezza Residences as a candidate and did a Google Image Search: http://images.google.com/images?q=mezza+residences+sta+mesa That seems to be it. Your photo and the building renders match down to

Re: [talk-ph] Yahoo!'s satellite imagery in Makati CBD is not good enough

2009-04-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Rally, Your suggestion wouldn't work as nicely since the CBD area is huge. The street I mentioned, Rufino (Herrera), is right smack in the middle of the CBD such that you cannot reliably extrapolate its position from traces taken in San Antonio, San Lorenzo and Urdaneta. As for taking a GPS

Re: [talk-ph] api 0.6 clogged

2009-04-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hehehe. I'm not going to edit until maybe the weekend. :-) The changeset browsing feature is looking good! It completely destroys the need for OSMaware and has utterly removed the primary reason why I'm using Itoworld's OSM Mapper. I'll now be using OSM Mapper to just browse data. On Tue, Apr

Re: [talk-ph] Revisiting the admin_level values for boundary=administrative

2009-04-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
can be aggregated to the above basic unit. What do others think? On 4/11/09, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Right now, in the mapping conventions page ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Mapping_conventions ) we have the following: 2

Re: [talk-ph] Reviving plan(s) for Tagaytay Mapping party

2009-04-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe it should be May 16 or 17? Sorry, I stand corrected so it's May 16 in Tagaytay maning eugene rally andre ianlopez (85%) murlwe (will try) neil Anymore? Rally proposes to carpool to share

Re: [talk-ph] Revisiting the admin_level values forboundary=administrative

2009-04-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Marloue, Slightly off-topic question. Since you're from Davao City, are residents of the city adamant about insisting that Davao City is separate from Davao del Sur? *Some* people from Zamboanga City are positively vocal (and sometimes actually hostile!) whenever people say they are part of

Re: [talk-ph] Revisiting the admin_level values for boundary=administrative

2009-04-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
needs to finish statistical processing of gigabytes of satellite data to meet work deadline! On 4/30/09, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi maning, Actually, I mentioned in my e-mail that I have specifically excluded congressional districts[1] from the discussion since

Re: [talk-ph] Manila East Road, Manila North Road, Manila South Road

2009-04-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I guess the DPWH is the agency that should know about these things? I'm not actually familiar with the Manila East,South,North road system. I'm just familiar (somewhat) with the Radial and Circumferential Road system of Metro Manila. As a bit of trivia, did you know that Republic Act No. 8224 (

Re: [talk-ph] Manila East Road, Manila North Road, Manila South Road

2009-04-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Manila East Road (via Sta. Mesa Manila and Shaw Blvd in Mandaluyong). So maybe it used to be connected to Manila. On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: I guess the DPWH is the agency that should know about these things? I'm not actually familiar

[talk-ph] Google Map Maker's Mapping Party Kit

2009-05-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Check this out: https://sites.google.com/site/mapmakeruserhelp/mappingkit It's pretty obvious that they got the idea of using mapping parties from OSM. Hehehe. Interestingly, they have a PPT presentation for display to the audience during the mapping party:

Re: [talk-ph] Is Makati road-complete?

2009-05-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Makati is close to complete and is extremely usable already. But I wouldn't say it's 100% complete especially if we want to use it to find addresses. For instance I recently tagged the street of northern Ecology Village as missing and the residential streets in Magallanes very near the corner of

[talk-ph] What level of POIs do we add? (was Click the City)

2009-05-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
It's tempting to mark out in OSM all of the Jollibee, McDonald's, and Starbucks branches in the Philippines but I'm wondering if this is wise. Do we mark out every retail store, every bank branch, every Western Union/FedEx/LBC outlet, and every company's office in OSM? My personal take is that we

Re: [talk-ph] What level of POIs do we add? (was Click the City)

2009-05-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
condominiums. On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: It's tempting to mark out in OSM all of the Jollibee, McDonald's, and Starbucks branches in the Philippines but I'm wondering if this is wise. Do we mark out every retail store, every bank branch, every

Re: [talk-ph] What level of POIs do we add? (was Click the City)

2009-05-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Rally de Leon rall...@gmail.com wrote: If you have access to (data of) all locations of Jollibee, McDonalds, 7-Eleven, Ministops, Mercury Drugs and all these big companies, by all means mark them. With the exceptions of those already inside big malls (which

Re: [talk-ph] POIs Part 2

2009-05-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Ahmed Farooq ah...@enthropia.com wrote: I have to add – have you seen the Boracay map? While it looks fantastic that it is all mapped out, naming each resort/business there has lead to a map that looks absolutely bloated and is unreadable at times. For

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Local list contacts

2009-05-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I nominate maning! Well, you've been forwarding important announcements anyway so we might as well make it official. Hehehe. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:18 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Anyone willing to take this on? -- Forwarded message -- From:

Re: [talk-ph] Reviving plan(s) for Tagaytay Mapping party

2009-05-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Let's set the meeting place to be the Starbucks in the restaurant complex here: http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.102179lon=120.952071zoom=18layers=B000FTF Meeting time is 9:00 am. Good? Eugene On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Hi guys

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Local list contacts

2009-05-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: I nominate maning! Well, you've been forwarding important announcements anyway so we might as well make it official. Hehehe. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:18 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Anyone willing to take

Re: [talk-ph] 1st OpenStreetMap Philippines Mapping Party Success!

2009-05-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I had fun guys! And it was really nice finally meeting the faces behind the edits. Hehehe. I can't count the number of times I did the mane obra during the mapping. :-P On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner an...@enthropia.comwrote: Hi all, I want to congratulate everyone

Re: [talk-ph] adding place reference to a POI

2009-05-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I was thinking of having a branch=* tag for these things. That way, the tools/renderers can have freedom to use this info however they want (add them in parentheses, use smaller fonts, etc.). Practically every company that has branches have names for their branches. It's not necessarily the

Re: [talk-ph] editing admin boundaries of Marikina

2009-05-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi maning, What we and Ian do is to decompose the borders as a network of ways. Each boundary way should only be a dividing line between any two barangays (if known) and left unnamed and tagged with the lowest (numeric) possible admin_level. Then the borders surrounding a barangay are collected

Re: [talk-ph] editing admin boundaries of Marikina

2009-05-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:09 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Having the internal boundaries is actually a con. The boundary of Marikina is its borders with other entities (like Pasig and Antipolo). The internal boundaries are more properly boundaries of the

Re: [talk-ph] New data import of San Carlos City, Negros

2009-05-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi maning, Is the data in WGS84 coordinates? The data seems to be shifted to the west by a fixed amount. On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:29 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: HI, FYI, we have a new data import from the San Carlos City, Negros LGU. Thanks to Noel and the rest

Re: [talk-ph] [OSM-talk] SOTM Scholarship Recipients Announced

2009-05-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, Egypt Anas Maraqa from Palestinian West Bank Anatolie Golovco from Moldova Arun Ganesh from Chennai, India Asif Rasul from Punjab, Pakistan Ciprian Talaba from Romania Claudomiro Nascimento Jr from Brazil Eugene Alvin Villar from Manila, Phillippines Freddy Rivera from Colombia Giorgi

Re: [talk-ph] Google Map Maker Mapping Party now in the Philippines

2009-05-31 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I haven't seen Google announce this event generally so I guess it's an invitation-only affair. It will be on June 3 in the evening in Makati. I think some of them are aware of OSM but I'm planning to surreptitiously introduce OSM to those who don't know. Hehehe. Well, I think many will still

Re: [talk-ph] OSM at ideacampdavao

2009-06-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Marloue Pidor mur...@mail2engineer.comwrote: In connection to this we just guested on a radio show of DXAB 1296 kHz (AM Station of ABS-CBN Davao) with Councilor Mabel Acosta. We promoted OSM its applications to the community, internet and IT as a whole. And

Re: [talk-ph] New data import of San Carlos City, Negros

2009-06-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:48 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: I believe so, I specifically requested the San Carlos City to give me the data under wgs84 proj and datum. (But we can never be sure, since I only received the shapefile data and no accompanying GIS metadata).

Re: [talk-ph] race to trace Sales interchange

2009-06-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Nah. Too expensive. :-) On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:27 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, ianlopez reported via openstreetbug that the Sales interchange going to NAIA terminal 3 is open: http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/?id=42356 I challenge everyone to trace this new

Re: [talk-ph] suggest a new mapping party event

2009-06-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Lake Caliraya is highly irregular. It's basically a man-made lake created by damming a valley. So there's a lot of narrow spots in there. I'm not so sure if bancas can readily go up along those narrow branches. Then again, I haven't been to the place. Hehehe. On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:58 PM,

Re: [talk-ph] suggest a new mapping party event

2009-06-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Galing! This is a great piece of work. Do you download the Landsat images from their website? Ma-try nga. :-) On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:26 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: ed, On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ed Garciaeppgar...@gmail.com wrote: interested in mapping the

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: RFC: importing Palawan roads

2009-06-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I was about to ask you to ask them how they compiled their data. It obviously wasn't traced over Google Earth nor taken using GPS tracks. I think Rally might have guessed their method correctly. On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:26 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: --

[talk-ph] OSM Italia

2009-06-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
There's a nice short blog post on the official OSM blog about the self-organizing efforts of the Italian OSM community: http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=522 Think we can do the same this year? :-D Eugene / seav -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com ___

Re: [talk-ph] just a thought OSM Philippines mini-conference

2009-06-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Guys, Let's try starting with this long-ago thread again and see where we end up with? We can target an July or August date or something for this event. Eugene / seav On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: If the idea gains traction, you might want to call it

Re: [talk-ph] smackcode and osm on ideacamp-davao

2009-06-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Galing! I've seen a few OSM-themed presentations lately and the ITO OSM 2008 video never fails to make an appearance. Hehehe. And looking at that animation never gets old. I hope we can make an equally beautiful animation for the Philippines. :-) On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:09 PM, maning sambale

Re: [talk-ph] Philippines PGS coastline import

2009-06-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hmmm... I think we should treat this like any other import (like the recently-discussed Palawan data). In lots of areas, the coastline has already been adjusted from the SRTM-based coastline before using the Landsat imagery in Yahoo. PGS is based from Landsat so in these areas, the PGS might not

Re: [talk-ph] gps traces from a delivery service company

2009-06-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Caveats: most GPX traces uploaded to OSM *are not* suitable for determining traffic data. In most cases, the fact that one is surveying affects how one drives and so the GPX data records how one surveys, not how one actually drives. Also, unless there's a fixed folksonomy, you cannot determine

Re: [talk-ph] suggest a new mapping party event

2009-06-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
One suggestion I can give is the McKinley Hills area in Taguig, south of the American Cemetery. This is still mostly pristine unmapped area in OSM and Google Map Maker without any updated satellite imagery in Yahoo! or Google (at least for their default base imagery [the historical imagery

Re: [talk-ph] Google Map Maker Mapping Party now in the Philippines

2009-06-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner an...@enthropia.comwrote: So more PR basically? Yeah, more PR. And here's my contribution to that PR: http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/google_map_maker_party :-p ___ talk-ph mailing list

Re: [talk-ph] suggest a new mapping party event

2009-06-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner an...@enthropia.comwrote: What are is this exactly? by ISM and British School? The fort area is a good area for a meeting for all people north and south. If so this time we want to secure ourselves a good meeting area where we can have

Re: [talk-ph] Davao City Tourism Office

2009-06-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Nice! I've created a Wiki page for your mapping party: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Mapping_Party/Davao_City This wiki page is intended to be a static documentation of the event geared for the OSM community audience (not necessarily OSM newbies or casual browsers).

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: RFC: importing Palawan roads

2009-06-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Maybe the Palawan data as a whole is not ok, but looking at the image you supplied for Puerto Princesa, maybe that city's downtown data is still good enough after shifting it to more or less match the existing OSM data. While some parts will not be GPS accurate, the data is still pretty much

[talk-ph] Makati CBD: Salcedo Village is pretty much complete

2009-06-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Kudos to Neil for virtually completing the office/residential buildings here! http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.55949lon=121.02177zoom=17layers=B000FTF I'm guessing his next taget is Legaspi Village. :-) ___ talk-ph mailing list

[talk-ph] The legality of tracing over Google's satellite imagery

2009-06-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Richard (Potlatch developer) has blogged about legal precedent and did a non-lawyer analysis of whether tracing stuff from Google Maps or Google Earth is allowed or not. See http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100 But while he argued that it is actually permitted to trace over Google's

Re: [talk-ph] invitation by bmw club

2009-06-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I think I can squeeze some time for this. :-) On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:06 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: I just got an invitation for a breakfast meeting with the bmw club. They are interested in our project mostly for gps navigation. They want to know more about OSM-PH

[talk-ph] PIA article: Online mappers to launch Davao mapping party

2009-06-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Check this article from the Philippine Information Agency: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12fi=p090618.htmno=14 Way to go Davao mappers! So, how was the workshop last Saturday? Eugene / seav ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org

[talk-ph] Davao Mapping Party report

2009-07-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, The Davao people have posted a report of their mapping party last Saturday: http://mapping.ideacampdavao.com/2009/07/davao-mapping-party-post-party-report.html Cheers! Eugene / seav -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com ___ talk-ph mailing list

Re: [talk-ph] looking GPS POI/icons for OSM-PH garmin gps map

2009-07-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi maning, I'll help you create the icons. What format should they be in? Eugene On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:24 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Sorry for the appeal (not entirely osm related) The next phase for my osm sub-project OSM-PH GPS map, is to create custom

[talk-ph] Accu-map's GPS maps

2009-07-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Accu-map is the mapping division of Asiatype which creates those beautiful Metro Manila Citiatlas maps. Last year, they partnered with AVT ( http://www.avt.ph/ ) to bring routable GPS navigation for cars and released their P18.5k Navigator A800 product early this year. Anyway, check out

[talk-ph] Edit in Meycauayan exposed a bug in the OSM servers

2009-07-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hey maning, This changeset of yours ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/1823709 ) exposed a bug in the OSM infrastructure. Apparently, the usage of UTF-8 versus an XML subset of it was not considered in the tool chain leading to a stoppage of importation of minutely diffs:

Re: [talk-ph] Draft MoA between the OSM-F and any possible localchapter

2009-07-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I'm willing to be an incorporator. And since the minimum capital for a non-profit is 5k pesos (I think), I'm willing to donate 1k pesos. However, the minimum required to open a bank account is 20-25k (depending on the bank) so I'm hoping somebody else can help foot that. :-) Suggestion: I think

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] keepright! goes global

2009-07-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
to the world, because of these gaps)? I'll try to connect them tomorrow. --- On Mon, 7/20/09, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: From: Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] keepright! goes global To: Totor Osm totor_...@yahoo.com Cc

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] keepright! goes global

2009-07-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Marloue Pidor mur...@mail2engineer.comwrote: Ohh, but I added a flight route from Davao to Manila. Check the data, its there but I don't know why it did not appear. So, Technically Davao is connected to Manila by plane. I will try to add ferry route to

Re: [talk-ph] Variable zoom level visibility

2009-07-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Ed, It is usually not appropriate to add tags or to adjust the data to fix rendering problems. This is the problem of the renderer tool itself and not of the data. In this case, the renderer should be able to recognize that there are only two POIs in an area and so should show them in lower

Re: [talk-ph] Draft MoA between the OSM-F and any possible localchapter

2009-07-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Ronny volunteered to be one of the incorporators before: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2009-May/000901.html On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner an...@enthropia.comwrote: no responses yet, need 1 more, 4 cannot make a company, need 5

Re: [talk-ph] changes of raod types

2009-08-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I suggest that the tags for highway=trunk,primary,secondary,tertiary,unclassified be considered as a function of traffic patterns and not of DOTC designation nor physical appearance or condition. These values should also be considered relative to local traffic patterns. This means that levels

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Nationnal websites

2009-08-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I guys Andre and Ahmed can and should take of this? On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:26 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Don't know how to respond here: On Monday 03 August 2009 20:09:23 SLXViper wrote: www.openstreetmap.is and osm.is weren't mentioned as far as I could

Re: [talk-ph] Draft MoA between the OSM-F and any possible localchapter

2009-08-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
proposed). On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Ronny Ager-Wick - Develo Ltd.r...@develo.ltd.uk wrote: Sorry I missed this. Yes, I still volunteer, and I'm going to the Phils in 3 weeks anyway, so if it will happen between 3 and 7 weeks from now, perfect! Ronny. Eugene Alvin Villar

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