Hi, A number of people have responded to our OSM love appeal. Thank you for your contributions! As result were expanding our coverage in the "noname" layer :)
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.589&lon=121.0679&zoom=12&layers=000BFTF You can continue remote editing with Yahoo! cheers, maning On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:19 AM, maning sambale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just got the news today from an OSM mapper that Metro Manila > Philippines is now in Google Mapmaker > See this: > http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=10&ll=14.555339,121.05835&spn=0.295086,0.31826&z=12 > > I have to admit that it is impressive in many parts (but not as > detailed as where I am currently mapping). However, we all know it > ain't free as in freedom. > > So again here's my OSM love campaign. Calling all OSMer! Please join > us in an online mapping party for Metro Manila Philippines. A couple > of minutes (or hours or days) of your time editing using the Yahoo! > imagery is most welcome. > > Using yahoo imagery, we want to complete a "first pass" edit to many > areas in the metropolis (yahoo imagery in Metro Manila is pretty much > dated by our guesstimate: 5 years old, but still very much useful). > > Before editing please consider the following: > 1. choose an area where there is virtually no edits (this way we don't > mess-up other contributions); > 2. we have "mostly" completed major routes (motorway/truks/primary) > so the remaining tags would be mostly residential areas; > 3. add the tag highway=road. > > Also have a look at the > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery#Problems_with_tracing_Yahoo > for tips. > > cheers, > maning > > -- > |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| > | __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great." -Yoda | > | '-._"7' |"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden| > | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | > | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com| > | _)_/LI > |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| > -- |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| | __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great." -Yoda | | '-._"7' |"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden| | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com| | _)_/LI |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
