Re: [talk-ph] Intramuros Mapping Party: meeting places

2010-12-12 Thread maning sambale 
We had the afternoon meet-up in Museong Pambata c/o Maricel Montero.

Inside the Old Manila exhibit room was a large map showing the route
of the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade [1].  The map shows that the
first entry point to the Philippines is a small island between Samar
and Luzon island.  This island is called Capul Island [2].

Some trivia why I am very much interested in this island:
1.  The native language is not of Visayan roots but that of a distinct
Abaknon (Inabaknon) related to the language family Sama-Bajaw dominant
in Sulu archipelago and the coast of Borneo. [3]  A map of Philippine
languages is here [4].  According to local legend: "Capul Island was
originally founded by King Abak who escaped from Java with his tribe
before the onslaught of Islam" [5]
2.  The geographic location of the island is an ideal
amenity=galleon_stop to the long route=ferry name=Manila-Acapulco
Galleon Trade Route, before proceeding to Manila because of the small
size of the island and the expansive view of the horizon.
"Wide-angle" view of the horizon is very important for the Galleon
traders in order to spot potential pirate attacks.
3.  Much of what we know as Filipino food (plants, fruits or
vegetables) came from the trade and commerce within this
Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade [6].  Big thanks to the Capul Island
dwellers who "helped" secure a safe travel to the galleon traders.

Free beers from me to anyone who will be able to visit and map this island. :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_galleon
[2] http://osm.org/go/44Fk8h0
[3] http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=1464-16
[4] http://samartrexplore.multiply.com/photos/album/17/EXPLORE_CAPUL_ISLAND
[5] http://essc.org.ph/content/view/21/46/
[6] 
http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090923-226468/Mexico-under-our-skin


On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, maning sambale
 wrote:
> Thank you to everyone who joined the party.  We will upload the paper
> scans in the next few days.  Will keep you posted when you can start
> tracing your cake slice.
>
> Maning (dead tired from 6 hours of walking on concrete pavement, but
> definitely worth it!)
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar  wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> The meetup place in the morning will be Chowking Intramuros:
>> http://osm.org/go/4zhQKS6ZC--?m
>>
>> It's basically one block away from the Manila Cathedral. Hope to see
>> many of you there! :-)
>>
>> Eugene (osm:seav)
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar  
>> wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> For the Intramuros Mapping Party, there will be 2 meeting places. One
>>> in the morning before the field survey and one in the afternoon after
>>> the field survey. We have not finalized yet the meeting places and we
>>> would like to solicit suggestions from the community.
>>>
>>> For the morning meetup, we are thinking of Chowking Intramuros
>>> . You can have breakfast here if you
>>> want. Does anybody have other suggestions?
>>>
>>> For the afternoon meetup, we think an airconditioned mall with Wi-Fi
>>> like Robinsons Manila or SM Manila would be OK. The problem is that
>>> this is the Christmas season and the malls would likely to be more
>>> packed than usual due to the Christmas shopping. Somewhere with Wi-Fi
>>> would be nice so we can teach newbies how to edit and other stuff like
>>> that. But failing that, then maybe some of you can lend your mobile
>>> Internet USB dongles?
>>>
>>> An alternate afternoon venue I can think of would be either of the 2
>>> Starbucks facing each other in UN Avenue at Bayview Park Hotel
>>>  or any of the coffee shops along UN
>>> Avenue.
>>>
>>> What do you guys think?
>>>
>>> Eugene
>>>
>>
>>
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Re: [talk-ph] Intramuros Mapping Party: Walking Papers scans

2010-12-12 Thread maning sambale 
A post about the strange ways people use walkingpapers:
http://content.stamen.com/walking_papers_developments

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar  wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> My Slice 4 partner Wayne has scanned and uploaded our Walking Papers:
>
> http://walkingpapers.org/scan.php?id=5t6tq3th
> http://walkingpapers.org/scan.php?id=tgmpp5q7
> http://walkingpapers.org/scan.php?id=2tczc687
>
> It's all numbers because we wrote down the names and addresses into a
> notebook. There's very little space otherwise!
>
> Eugene (osm:seav)
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Re: [talk-ph] Bing or own aerial pictures...

2010-12-12 Thread maning sambale 
Great job Totor!  Your effort to document the process is most
commendable.  This will be very useful as I have my own plans of
collecting my DIY imagery in the future.
One thing I noticed is that your TMS aligned better with Google
imagery than that of Bing


On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Totor  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick note on the imagery.
> I still have problems stitching them with Hugin.
> More details here : http://osm.totor.ph/
>
> I was able to align part of the pictures further, using
> QGIS. Still not good enough in my opinion, but I won't have time to continue 
> the experiment for the moment.
> Altough not good for editing, I uploaded the resulting imagery for viewing 
> here :
> http://osm.totor.ph/SM-Cebu/
>
> Selecting the "My TMS" main layer allows to zoom to 21!
>
> Regards,
>
> Totor
>
> --- On Sun, 11/28/10, Totor  wrote:
>
>> That could be great to add them to gravitystorm.
>> But wait for the final ones. The stitched images I have now
>> are not correctly aligned yet.
>> I hope that will be better after replacing the automatic
>> control points with manual ones. (Now automatic points on
>> tall building distort the ground level, so I try to place
>> all control points on ground level.)
>>
>>
>> --- On Sun, 11/28/10, maning sambale  wrote:
>>
>> > Very cool experiment!  Would you
>> > like this added to the philippine
>> > images we have in the osm dev server (spot and
>> > quickbirds)?  Maybe we
>> > can request gravitystorm to include this
>> imagery.  Or
>> > you can serve
>> > them yourself via tms.
>> >
>
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Re: [talk-ph] Bing or own aerial pictures...

2010-12-12 Thread Anthony Balico 
One word: awesome!


On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Totor  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick note on the imagery.
> I still have problems stitching them with Hugin.
> More details here : http://osm.totor.ph/
>
> I was able to align part of the pictures further, using
> QGIS. Still not good enough in my opinion, but I won't have time to
> continue the experiment for the moment.
> Altough not good for editing, I uploaded the resulting imagery for viewing
> here :
> http://osm.totor.ph/SM-Cebu/
>
> Selecting the "My TMS" main layer allows to zoom to 21!
>
> Regards,
>
> Totor
>
> --- On Sun, 11/28/10, Totor  wrote:
>
> > That could be great to add them to gravitystorm.
> > But wait for the final ones. The stitched images I have now
> > are not correctly aligned yet.
> > I hope that will be better after replacing the automatic
> > control points with manual ones. (Now automatic points on
> > tall building distort the ground level, so I try to place
> > all control points on ground level.)
> >
> >
> > --- On Sun, 11/28/10, maning sambale  wrote:
> >
> > > Very cool experiment!  Would you
> > > like this added to the philippine
> > > images we have in the osm dev server (spot and
> > > quickbirds)?  Maybe we
> > > can request gravitystorm to include this
> > imagery.  Or
> > > you can serve
> > > them yourself via tms.
> > >
>
>
>
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[talk-ph] Bing or own aerial pictures...

2010-12-12 Thread Totor 
Hi all,

Just a quick note on the imagery.
I still have problems stitching them with Hugin.
More details here : http://osm.totor.ph/

I was able to align part of the pictures further, using
QGIS. Still not good enough in my opinion, but I won't have time to continue 
the experiment for the moment. 
Altough not good for editing, I uploaded the resulting imagery for viewing here 
:
http://osm.totor.ph/SM-Cebu/

Selecting the "My TMS" main layer allows to zoom to 21!

Regards,

Totor

--- On Sun, 11/28/10, Totor  wrote:

> That could be great to add them to gravitystorm. 
> But wait for the final ones. The stitched images I have now
> are not correctly aligned yet.
> I hope that will be better after replacing the automatic
> control points with manual ones. (Now automatic points on
> tall building distort the ground level, so I try to place
> all control points on ground level.)
>  
> 
> --- On Sun, 11/28/10, maning sambale  wrote:
> 
> > Very cool experiment!  Would you
> > like this added to the philippine
> > images we have in the osm dev server (spot and
> > quickbirds)?  Maybe we
> > can request gravitystorm to include this
> imagery.  Or
> > you can serve
> > them yourself via tms.
> > 



  

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[talk-ph] JOSM editing tip

2010-12-12 Thread Jim Morgan 
Came across this on someone's blog - something I didn't know how to do in JOSM 
before. It always used to irritate me if ways were joined together, but this 
will definitely make editing them easier.

Jim
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"I think the problem is that although it is easy to create a way onto of 
another, nobody knows how to edit them. If you click the line it will only 
select one of the ways. Using JOSM, if you middle click the line(or left & 
right click on laptops) a box will appear along side describing each way. 
Before releasing the mouse button, hold down the Control key to keep that box 
there (you can now release the mouse button) and while the control key is still 
pressed you can go and click the description of the way you want. Let go of 
everything and the way you want should be selected for whatever editing you 
wish to do. Sounds complicated doesn’t it, but once you’ve done it it’s easy 
enough to do again."

http://www.livingwithdragons.com/2009/04/cycling-ncn-65-to-get-home

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