Well thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I'd already finished my tracks the hard
way by the time I read your post, so I'll have to use it next time. Anyway, the
national highway is now in place northbound from Cebu, and the tiny 1km by 2km
island of Malapascua now probably has the most detailed cartographic
representation anywhere on the internet!
By the way, if you ever fancy a remote island getaway, its an awesome place.
In doing this, I've noticed that the major impediment to mapping in
OpenStreetMap is the level of detail of satellite images on Yahoo. I could have
filled in a lot more information if I was allowed to use the higher res images
on Google Earth for eg, but that isn't possible of course. I think this will
hold back our efforts in the Philippines unless we can think of some way around
this.
I don't think Yahoo is in a position to be lobbied to provide more coverage at
the moment, and what with Jerry Yang's departure, the future of the company is
looking unsure. I think we need to find another source of satellite imagery
which we can use, or at least reduce the dependency on Yahoo.
Jim
Maning Sambale wrote, On Monday, December 29, 2008 09:24 PM:
So, I've just processed the first track by using JOSM. I basically used the
grey dots for a guide, and then clicked my way 40 km along the road with the
way creation tool. Was that what I was meant to do? Seems a laborious way of
doing it, but the data is in there now.
In JOSM you can, right-click the gpx file in the layer window and
convert to data layer. The whole gpx is now a way which you can add
tags or simplify the geometry, by deleting points.
You can simplify a way using the simplify plugin.
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