Hi guys, Let's set the meeting place to be the Starbucks in the restaurant complex here: http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.102179&lon=120.952071&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF
Meeting time is 9:00 am. Good? Eugene On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi guys, > > The planned mapping party is less than a week away. So let's get the > planning into high gear. > > First of all, please confirm again your attendance by replying. Also > indicate if you'll be bringing a vehicle that can be used for mapping. If > you're not bringing a car, do you plan to go to Tagaytay using public > transportation or would you be willing to be picked up along the way (maybe > in Alabang?). Also indicate if you have any GPS devices that can be used. > Hopefully we can fix travel arrangements for everyone soon. > > Second, depending on the available transportation, I don't think that > everyone can do mapping individually so maybe we'll split the group into > teams of 2 or 3 people. The number of teams will affect how we divide the > Tagaytay cake. > > Third, we need to draw up a list of target places to map. While we can just > say "map as much as possible" it would be best to prioritize by having a > scavenger-hunt type of list of important POIs and landmarks, usually > touristy in nature. Here's an initial list of possible places I cobbled > together from various tourist web pages about Tagaytay: > > * City Hall > * Picnic Grove > * People's Park in the Sky > * Taal Vista Hotel > * Casino Filipino > * Tagaytay Highlands > * Tagaytay Crosswinds > * Development Academy of the Philippines > * Pink Sisters Convent > * Divine Word Seminary > * other retreat houses (Tagaytay is a popular destination for religious > retreats) > * Filipino-Japanese Friendship Garden > * (some zoo that I visited before but can't remember what its name is) > * Mushroom Burger! > > It would be nice if we can get extensive data for some of these places, > e.g. buildings, driveways, walking paths of Picnic Grove. > > Here's the "Maps" web page of the Tagaytay City website: > http://www.tagaytay.gov.ph/Maps.html > > Fourth, I'm volunteering to be the point contact person. (Maning famously > doesn't have a cellphone so I'm not sure if he's willing to be the contact > person.) If you all agree, confirmed participants should e-mail me privately > their cellphone numbers. > > Anything else I missed? > > > Eugene / seav > > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Ed Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> E-Z Map has a map for Tagaytay City. Perhaps you can use that to divide >> the cake. You may want to divide it by the 4 major roads linking to the >> main Tagaytay road (Mendez Road, Amadeo Road, Aguinaldo (Silang Road), Sta >> Rosa Road. This should give 5 major areas. >> >> just a suggestion ... >> >> :>) ed >> >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:56 PM, maning sambale < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I need help in slicing the "cake" for our Tagaytay mapping party, >>> something like this: >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London_mapping_party >>> >>> Unfortunately, I can't find a good tagaytay map on the web to use a >>> reference (even the big G don't have high-res sat image). I am also >>> unfamiliar with Tagaytay. Anybody willing to prepare the cake for the >>> party? >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk-ph mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph >> >> > > > -- > http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com > -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com
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