Re: [talk-ph] OSM Philippines meet-up
Yeah, I'm on for a meet up, particularly if beer is involved! Early Feb would be prefered, as I'm going to be out of town for the last week of Jan. Jim maning sambale wrote, On Monday, January 12, 2009 11:44 AM: Hi, Can we have a meet-up this month (January)? Just an informal gathering of OSM Philippines contributors (over beer, water, iced tea or marvel taheebo) Anyone ineterested? post a date or venue here: -- datalude: information security e: j...@datalude.com Philippines: +63 2 403 1311 / mob: +63 920 912 5830 Hong Kong: +852 9100 7586 w: http://www.datalude.com/ ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
Re: [talk-ph] Broadening coverage.
Great idea! Feel free to improve this for the Philippine setting: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Weekend_mapping_projects/Form_letters Some tips in writing press releases: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Writing_a_press_release It occured to me as I was browsing some of the resorts, that this would be a good way to get more people hooked in. All the resorts have bad instructions on how to get there, and most of them are in fairly remote areas. So, if we were to approach them and suggest that they make sure their bit of the Philippines is on the map, then they can use OSM as a resource on their websites, to make sure that customers (especially ones with GPS!) can find them. Some resorts are in Ed's webpage: www.waypoints.ph Maybe Ed can also help us with contacts. Informal/personal/social contacts sends the message across a lot easier. -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ -- ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
Re: [talk-ph] Broadening coverage.
Regarding resorts listed at waypointsdotph ... no problem ... I will have those resorts that have coordinates added to OSM. Btw, what tag will we use for resorts? will we simply use Hotel? As to contact numbers. You can use the ones listed on the website. I can give Maning the list. Though I already tried to ask the resorts that do not have gps coordinates to to send in their coordinates but they usually do not have access to GPS receivers. And locating and pinpointing their establishments on the current map is not easy either especially for resorts in the provinces. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Great idea! Feel free to improve this for the Philippine setting: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Weekend_mapping_projects/Form_letters Some tips in writing press releases: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Writing_a_press_release It occured to me as I was browsing some of the resorts, that this would be a good way to get more people hooked in. All the resorts have bad instructions on how to get there, and most of them are in fairly remote areas. So, if we were to approach them and suggest that they make sure their bit of the Philippines is on the map, then they can use OSM as a resource on their websites, to make sure that customers (especially ones with GPS!) can find them. Some resorts are in Ed's webpage: www.waypoints.ph Maybe Ed can also help us with contacts. Informal/personal/social contacts sends the message across a lot easier. -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ -- ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph -- website administrator: - www.waypoints.ph - reeflife.eppgarcia.com PADI Divemaster #491048 ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
[talk-ph] natural=peak GNS upload complete
Hi Maning and list, As requested, I've uploaded full set of Philippine mountain and hill names found in the US government's GNS dataset. You should start to see these appearing in the Osmarender map view and in Mapnik next week. I've also uploaded names of mountain ranges as place=mountain_range . These will not render out but are there for search use. I keep a full file of all the node numbers, so if there are any systematic issues, do let me know because I can easily make a mass change. GNS data is not always entirely accurate and is if coarse resolution so the tags will rarely exactly overlie the landsat image of the peak they represent, so do please feel free to edit away! There will also be some duplication with your own entries to be merged. I'd appreciate if is_in tag information is preserved as I am slowly working on a gazeteer that can be browsed on a province by province basis. A Happy 2009 of mapping to all! Mike ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
Re: [talk-ph] Broadening coverage.
Excellent! The ability to use OSM data as a national search and location resource for overseas tourism promotion provides a serious demonstration of the value of what we are doing. I've mapped in each and every Boracay hotel and just used tourism=hotel but any other information, even if you invent your own tags is always useful. It is nice to know if I am booking my family into a resort not a short-time hotel :-) I do not know if it is practical for you but another suggestion is to provide as much supplementary information as possible. It is very easy to write scripts to pull out a list of hotels for an area someone is interested in if this sort of tagging is used: tourism=hotel name=The Nice Hotel is_in:country=Philippines is_in:state=Xxx Province is_in:island=Panglao is_in:beach=Alona Beach ... Mike At 03:05 PM 14/01/2009, Ed Garcia wrote: Regarding resorts listed at waypointsdotph ... no problem ... I will have those resorts that have coordinates added to OSM. Btw, what tag will we use for resorts? will we simply use Hotel? As to contact numbers. You can use the ones listed on the website. I can give Maning the list. Though I already tried to ask the resorts that do not have gps coordinates to to send in their coordinates but they usually do not have access to GPS receivers. And locating and pinpointing their establishments on the current map is not easy either especially for resorts in the provinces. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM, maning sambale mailto:emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comemmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Great idea! Feel free to improve this for the Philippine setting: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Weekend_mapping_projects/Form_lettershttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Weekend_mapping_projects/Form_letters Some tips in writing press releases: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Writing_a_press_releasehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Writing_a_press_release It occured to me as I was browsing some of the resorts, that this would be a good way to get more people hooked in. All the resorts have bad instructions on how to get there, and most of them are in fairly remote areas. So, if we were to approach them and suggest that they make sure their bit of the Philippines is on the map, then they can use OSM as a resource on their websites, to make sure that customers (especially ones with GPS!) can find them. Some resorts are in Ed's webpage: http://www.waypoints.phwww.waypoints.ph Maybe Ed can also help us with contacts. Informal/personal/social contacts sends the message across a lot easier. -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ -- ___ talk-ph mailing list mailto:talk-ph@openstreetmap.orgtalk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph -- website administrator: - http://www.waypoints.phwww.waypoints.ph - http://reeflife.eppgarcia.comreeflife.eppgarcia.com PADI Divemaster #491048 ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
Re: [talk-ph] Broadening coverage.
tourism=hotel name=The Nice Hotel is_in:country=Philippines is_in:state=Xxx Province is_in:island=Panglao is_in:beach=Alona Beach Excellent example! I think I've this area a bit. I agree we add this info to the POIs. -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ -- ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
