Re: [talk-ph] NOAH edits in Cebu City

2014-10-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I think Project NOAH also had an OSM mapping event or workshop in Davao around 2 weeks ago based on the flood of changesets with #NOAH in Davao. Example are this new user's edits: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/patalita25/history On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:13 PM, maning sambale

[talk-ph] OpenStreetMap: Pencil-drawn style!

2014-09-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Much like the Watercolor style created by Stamen Design, I'm really digging the pencil-drawn style OSM map created by Mapbox! Slippymap:

[talk-ph] Santa Ana, Manila Mapping Party report

2014-09-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello everybody, First of all, here's the before-and-after image: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Santa_Ana,_Manila_Mapping_Party_before_and_after.png Thank you to everybody who attended our first mapping party since 2011. We were joined by mappers Rally and Marco (who is also a board

Re: [talk-ph] Bing imagery update?

2014-09-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
as well, but, I saw that parts of Negros Island right at the edges where Haiyan mapping was done now have hires imagery. Ie: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/10.9552/123.3080 On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: When I checked yesterday, the only new

Re: [talk-ph] Bing imagery update?

2014-09-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 9:30 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent! So far two uncovered provinces for Bing are Batanes and Siquijor. Well, Romblon is hardly covered at all as well. Only a small sliver of Banton Island has Bing imagery. :)

Re: [talk-ph] Proposed Sta. Ana Mapping Party on September 13

2014-09-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
,_Manila_Mapping_Party See you tomorrow! :-) Eugene On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Here's the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/276140185911092/ If you're on Facebook, please do share this event or invite other people who you

Re: [talk-ph] SOTM-PH 2014?

2014-09-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Why not SotM Asia? :-) On Sep 8, 2014 8:08 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: We had the first sotm-ph December last year [0] Any thoughts of doing it again? (this year or next?) [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_Philippines_2013 -- cheers, maning

Re: [OSM-talk] tag with value lists Was: Proposed mechanical edit to convert alt_name tags

2014-09-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: Isnt the semicolon the list seperator typically used in OSM? My intuitive answer would have been alt_name=a;b;c;d +1 I think using a semicolon-delimited list is better than a potentially open-ended set of keys such as

Re: [talk-ph] Software Freedom Day 2014 at Tagaytay

2014-09-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
It seems that the Tagaytay event is organized by Mozilla Philippines. This event is different from the ones organized by Computer Professionals Union (CPU): SFD in FEU in 2013 and UP Diliman in 2012. In 2014, the CPU SFD will be at PUP on September 20: http://www.sfdphilippines.org/ On Thu, Sep

Re: [talk-ph] Proposed Sta. Ana Mapping Party on September 13

2014-09-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I arrive. Cheers On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Here's the event page on the OSM Wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Santa_Ana,_Manila_Mapping_Party I'll be creating the Facebook event page tonight. :-) ~Eugene On Sep 2

Re: [talk-ph] Proposed Sta. Ana Mapping Party on September 13

2014-09-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, hospitals, and the like. I'll be preparing the cake by the weekend. :-) See you all! ~Eugene On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Here's the event page on the OSM Wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Santa_Ana,_Manila_Mapping_Party

Re: [talk-ph] Proposed Sta. Ana Mapping Party on September 13

2014-09-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
And if you're on Google+, here's the event page over there for sharing: https://plus.google.com/events/cbb235gl0ma37fafplk94mnjnpo See you guys! On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Here's the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com

Re: [talk-ph] Proposed Sta. Ana Mapping Party on September 13

2014-09-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everyone, Here's the event page on the OSM Wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Santa_Ana,_Manila_Mapping_Party I'll be creating the Facebook event page tonight. :-) ~Eugene On Sep 2, 2014 8:51 AM, sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Wikimedia Philippines will be having a

[talk-ph] Proposed Sta. Ana Mapping Party on September 13

2014-09-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everyone, Wikimedia Philippines will be having a WikiExpedition in the heritage zone of Sta. Ana, Manila this coming September 13, Saturday. I thought, why not have an OSM Mapping Party there as well? I'd like to know who is interested as well. :-) The WikiExpedition aims to take photographs

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-31 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Aug 31, 2014 5:14 PM, Simon Poole si...@osmfoundation.org wrote: Nipping this in the bud: the OSMF and WMF are working together on exactly 0 (in words: zero) projects. Note: this is simply a statement of fact and not an opinion on if the OSMF should or should not collaborate more (less not

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-31 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Aug 31, 2014 4:53 PM, Fabio Alessandro Locati fabioloc...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I would add that Wikidata is different from many (or all) other databases since: 1. it can give REAL value to OSM users (while most dbs don't) 2. It's philosophically close to OSM (while most dbs aren't) +1. We

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-31 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 5:22 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: But where do you stop. Wikipedia and wikidata are not the only sources so if they get 'special treatment' then why not some of the other similar archives? Now if every other archive simply included an OSM tag ... problem

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] OSM goes (almost) in the 4ht dimension

2014-08-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everyone, If you have the traditional 3D glasses (the one with the red and cyan filter), you might find this stereo 3D OSM-history map quite amazing. Read the forwarded email below for details. :) ~Eugene -- Forwarded message -- From: Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: Summary: Good question and some long term thinking required but the import will, at most, only make this thinking need to be done sooner. We'll have to cross this question even if this import doesn't occur. Just

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

2014-08-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com wrote: I'd like to annotate these 70k objects in OSM with a Wikidata tag automatically. +1. As somebody who would like closer integration between Wikimedia projects like Wikidata and OSM, I definitely agree with the proposal.

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Routing on OpenStreetMap.org: Bug checks wanted

2014-08-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everyone, The main OSM website will have a routing feature (tab) soon. But before the developers deploy that, they would like everyone to test it first. Please see the forwarded email below. Happy testing! ~Eugene -- Forwarded message -- From: Paul Norman penor...@mac.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Personal maps tool similar to my maps

2014-08-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Try uMap: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/ On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Tanveer Singh tanveer1...@gmail.com wrote: In google maps world you can create your own map, with waypoints, POIs etc., of your choice and export it as KML etc., etc., IS there a similar website/tool/system

[talk-ph] Presenting about Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap at Wikimania 2014

2014-08-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everyone, Over two weeks ago, I had the amazing opportunity to attend Wikimania 2014 in London. Wikimania is the annual conference for the Wikimedia movement, which includes the Wikipedia project. Coincidentally, the conference occurred on the same weekend as the 10th anniversary of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

2014-08-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: How would the Collective Database approach work if the OSM Database must remain unmodified to be part of a Collective Database? The definition of Collective Database seems to be tailored to use cases where the OpenStreetMap

[talk-ph] Maps Engineer job position at the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-08-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Maybe some of you are interested. :-) http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qSa9VfwQcs=9UL9Vfwtpage=Job%20Descriptionj=ojIlZfw5 Knowledge of OSM is required since the Wikimedia Foundation is expanding its use of OSM in the Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia. Mostly this involves

[talk-ph] USAID talk at the White House on HOT and Typhoon Haiyan

2014-08-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everyone, HOT has posted a blog article highlighting the talk given by Albert Gembara of the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) at the White House. His talk highlighted the use of the HOT OSM Tasking Manager in coordinating the mapping work in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan and how

Re: [talk-ph] Bing imagery update?

2014-08-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
When I checked yesterday, the only new imagery I saw was covering a part of Sorsogon City. Actually, it's been a really long time since we've checked for new imagery so I'm not sure if the Sorsogon City imagery is really new or not. On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:28 AM, maning sambale

Re: [talk-ph] Happy 10th Birthday OSM! Tell us your story.

2014-08-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Happy birthday! How did I start? Well, I first created an account in OSM in July 28, 2007. And I've been hooked ever since. You can all read about how I started on my blog: “OpenStreetMap Does the Philippines”, August 4, 2007 (a week after I created an account)

Re: [talk-ph] tracing individual rice paddies

2014-08-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I think neither tag is appropriate. man_made=dyke doesn't seem to be appropriate since a dyke's purpose is to prevent flooding, and these rice paddy embankments do not do that. On Aug 11, 2014 5:32 AM, Erwin Olario gov...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, kudos to the volunteers working in the

Re: [talk-ph] FOSS4G Asia 2014 in Bangkok

2014-07-31 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The registration fees are still pretty steep though. Early bird registration fee for ASEAN people is $175 or about 7000+ pesos. On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:41 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: 10 years after the first FOSS4G in Thailand, FOSS4G comes back to Asia on 2-5

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: Invitation to an inter-agency meeting to discuss availability, quality and accessibility of common and fundamental operational datasets in the Philippines (June 16th, 2014)

2014-07-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello everybody, This is quite delayed, but I would like to provide a short report of what happened during the DSWD forum. I was able to attend the afternoon session (the morning session was reserved for government agencies). Basically, the idea of the forum is to provide a venue for government

[talk-ph] An OsmAnd personal user guide

2014-07-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
A long-time user of OsmAnd (that popular OSM-based mobile navigation app) has written a nice guide on using and making the most out of OsmAnd: https://joostschouppe.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/using-osmand-on-the-road/ This guide might be a better way to learn about using OsmAnd than other

[talk-ph] Mozilla Maker Festival (Sep 13–14, 2014)

2014-07-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everyone, The Mozilla Philippines community is organizing a Maker Festival on September 13–14, 2014 (Saturday and Sunday) at the Glorietta 5 Atrium in Makati. More information: http://makerfestival.ph/ I think this is a really good event for OSM Philippines community to participate in. We

Re: [talk-ph] Project NOAH encouraging mapping through OSM

2014-06-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
And here's a YouTube video from Project NOAH on why they want people, especially LGUs, to map buildings in OSM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywnUfY2uerY Very nice! :-) On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 5:50 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Just saw this blog article from Project

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] IEEE Conference in Montreal, ShareSlide available, HOT Response to Haiyan and Ebola outbreak

2014-06-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
-- Forwarded message -- From: Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr Date: Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:02 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] IEEE Conference in Montreal, ShareSlide available, HOT Response to Haiyan and Ebola outbreak To: HOT Discussion list h...@openstreetmap.org, OSM Talk discussion list

Re: [talk-ph] Guagua mapping progress and tagging evacuation centers

2014-06-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:58 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: for the meantime we added the tag: evacuation_center=yes. Surely this should be evacuation_centre=yes? ;) ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Name

2014-05-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: I need help with a street name. In Leavenworth, WA there is a street named Edelweiss Weg that I want to add. Is Weg an abbreviation for something? It will be tagged highway=service service=alley. Google translate

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Module Sprint May 30-June 1, 2014 (Re: Module development and Trainors Training Workshop)

2014-05-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
know a luxury) one shows the slides on the topic and the other walks people through what to actual click. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: On 01/31/2014 09:18 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Also, I've noticed that Filipinos generally prefer

Re: [talk-ph] Tagging on OSMPH

2014-05-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Mark Cupitt markcup...@gmail.com wrote: I also have a question about places:ph, there are a LOT in the database, I guess they are implemented with other tags, is there a definitive

Re: [talk-ph] Icons on POI's - Proposal

2014-05-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
. === On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Mark, Both options you mentioned are equally OK depending on what is needed. It is a classic trade-off situation. If you want

[talk-ph] Barangays with no native population

2014-05-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's an interesting news item (in Tagalog) about the ghost Barangay 544 in Zone 54 in Manila: www.remate.ph/2011/04/ang-‘multong’-brgy-544-zone-54-ng-maynila/ Despite there supposedly being no more residents in this barangay since 2007, it still receives its IRA (internal revenue allotment)

Re: [talk-ph] Barangays with no native population

2014-05-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
=133906000regcode=13provcode=39 On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Here's an interesting news item (in Tagalog) about the ghost Barangay 544 in Zone 54 in Manila: www.remate.ph/2011/04/ang-‘multong’-brgy-544-zone-54-ng-maynila/ Despite there supposedly being

Re: [talk-ph] Icons on POI's - Proposal

2014-05-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Mark Cupitt markcup...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Eugene, while we are discussing this, is it worth displaying the opening hours as part of the poi description if it is in the database?? It is kind of relevant to people who look at a map .. Thoughts? Yes. The

Re: [talk-ph] Tagging on OSMPH

2014-05-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Mark Cupitt markcup...@gmail.com wrote: I also have a question about places:ph, there are a LOT in the database, I guess they are implemented with other tags, is there a definitive list of what the other tags are? Seem like Barangays mostly, but possibly some

[talk-ph] Indonesia-Philippines EEZ boundary data is now available

2014-05-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
As you may all know, the Philippines and Indonesia recently signed a treaty delimiting the border between our respective exclusive economic zones. More information can be found in the following links including the coordinates of the common boundary:

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: MEDAIR : Philipines Imagery

2014-05-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The imagery is pretty good! I think this would make identifying damaged buildings easier. Is this layer available for tracing? On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:51 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Check out this amazing uav photos. -- Forwarded message -- From:

Re: [talk-ph] First Philippine TechCamp

2014-05-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
There's a related event (though a hackathon) this coming weekend and as mentioned by Maning a few days ago, OSM-PH could present there: http://data.gov.ph/events/readysaster/ On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Carlo Antonio Romero carlo.rom...@gmail.com wrote: Was wondering if someone from

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Creative Commons license question

2014-05-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: This is a pure CC question. An organisation is making a short film/video which will be released CC-BY. They want to show (fleetingly) OSM map tiles ... which are CC-BY-SA- 2.0. Can they do that? I think fair

Re: [talk-ph] readysaster hackathon OSM talk

2014-05-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Oh yeah, Leaflet JS is always a mainstay if you're developing hybrid HTML5-based mobile apps and you want to display a map. On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Overpass API and Overpass Turbo as you have mentioned in a separate email is probably the best

Re: [OSM-talk] overpass api tips and tricks

2014-05-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Generally, the Overpass API and Overpass Turbo documentation is enough for developers to understand. What they really need to know also is the OSM data model (nodes, ways, relations, tagging) in order to make the most out of Overpass. On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:13 PM, maning sambale

Re: [talk-ph] Tagging

2014-04-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I am using highway=living_street for residential streets (that are definitely not highway=service) where cars are permitted to pass through but is inadvisable because the road is narrow or because people usually use the street as a pedestrian area. Example: San Pascual St. in Malate, Manila:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Upload of copyrighted map images from OSM to Facebook

2014-04-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: A user on the Italian Mailing List posted this link concerning Facebook's integration of Wikipedia content into the so-called facebook community pages: https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21721 In this

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] High res DigitalGlobe imagery open for tracing through Mapbox Satellite

2014-04-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Here's some great news from our friends over at Mapbox and DigitalGlobe! More info here: http://www.digitalglobeblog.com/2014/04/09/mappingtheworldinosm/ I guess this is the big announcement for the State of the Map US which will be held in Washington, D.C. this weekend. --

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote: Am 06/apr/2014 um 01:24 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com: or if a court decision says *exactly* that it is OK to copy stuff for OSM. how would you get that decision if you didn't use the material

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Paulo Carvalho paulo.r.m.carva...@gmail.com wrote: Dear fellow mappers, Let me present myself to you. I'm a OSM mapper from the Brazil community and a question rose there which caused a split in the group regarding Google Street View to perform virtual

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
FWIW, I agree with you that it should not be a case of copyright infringement to obtain uncopyrightable facts from copyroghted sources. Here's a blog post that even argues that it is OK to trace from Google's satellite imagery: http://www.systemed.net/blog/legacy/100.html But OSM does not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright of old media / images / maps

2014-04-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody can explain how it can be legal to claim copyright on old material, say 18th or 19th century works? When browsing the web (mostly library pages and catalogues) those institutions often claim full

Re: [OSM-talk] Issues with finding street corners

2014-03-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Droid Power droidgsm2...@gmail.com wrote: In Ecuador it is quite common for places to be identified by the two intersecting streets since street numbering is not consistent. Yet it seems OSM does not allow this, is this a bug or my fault? Do you mean while

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: We see this already. I've spoken to companies and orgs who have said specifically that they would not contribute to OSM if it was not Share-Alike. No one wants to be competing against themselves in the future. This

Re: [talk-ph] Project NOAH asking everyone to map in OSM

2014-03-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
. For example, East Avenue Medical Center should have the tag ref:doh=504, not ref:doh=DOH504. On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Here's a simple poll to see what the community

Re: [OSM-talk] Not attaching polygons to roads

2014-02-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: I'm not convinced this is usually true. It maybe UK specific, but municipal boundaries were more likely to originally be placed on physical boundaries to farms estates such as walls, fences etc. before tracks/roads were

Re: [talk-ph] Project NOAH asking everyone to map in OSM

2014-02-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Here's a simple poll to see what the community thinks: http://poll.pollcode.com/16318232 Current poll results: ref=* - 3 votes nat_ref=* - 1 vote ref:doh=* - 5 votes Some comments on the poll page: Pierre: ref:doh

Re: [talk-ph] Project NOAH asking everyone to map in OSM

2014-02-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
: ref=* nat_ref=* ref:doh=* [1] http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/653 [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/heritage On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:41 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [talk-ph] Project NOAH asking everyone to map in OSM

2014-02-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
81CE 3A93 D56B On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: My understanding is that you only add another term to the key name (ref=* -- ref:isil=*) if it is highly likely that some other ID or coding system has a higher priority for the basic ref=* tag

Re: [talk-ph] multiple multipolygons for Pampanga River

2014-02-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Ronny Ager-Wick ro...@ager-wick.comwrote: Thanks for the clarification, Pierre. Actually, I tagged the relation both with natural=water, water=river and waterway=riverbank as advised in the wiki (see New Tagging) I assume this is the recommended way to do it?

[talk-ph] Win an iPad mini or Galaxy Note by editing OSM

2014-02-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
From OSM founder Steve Coast: For three years, Telenav has been dedicated to helping the community through map updates. Today, we've kicked off a contesthttp://www.scout.me/osmto see if we can help drive even more edits over the next 30 days. Anyone can win and it's pretty easy to enter.

Re: [talk-ph] Increasing demand for OSM talks and workshops

2014-01-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: maning sambale wrote, On Wednesday, 29 January, 2014 06:40 PM: Might it be more prudent if we can consolidate several of the requests into 1, preferably in Manila? Outside of Manila, there is no group of mappers who are

Re: [talk-ph] Freshly arrived in the Philippines

2014-01-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Sébastien, Welcome to the Philippines! I'm guessing your OSM username is WingedStone based on this changeset? http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20255009 Anyway, some local mappers that I think are in the area are Jay-Ar (OSM: jay-ar) and Ronel (OSM: Ronel). You might want to contact them

Re: [talk-ph] Google Street View car spotted on EDSA

2014-01-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Regarding this, there's been an official launch today: http://youtu.be/xidG1BSDR58 On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Not OSM-related but definitely local mapping related: http://www.yugatech.com/gogle/google

Re: [talk-ph] Increasing demand for OSM talks and workshops

2014-01-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi maning, Might it be more prudent if we can consolidate several of the requests into 1, preferably in Manila? Outside of Manila, there is no group of mappers who are also interested in spreading the word or giving lectures, workshops, and tutorials. I think it would also help if we can create

[talk-ph] Woodcut OSM!

2014-01-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
From MapBox: https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/eleanor.mnyzxgvi/page.html?secure=1#17/14.58733/-238.93829 ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

[talk-ph] Derick's A Year of Edits 2013 animation

2014-01-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I seems this hasn't been shared on this mailing list before so here's Derick Rethan's animation of OSM editing activity in 2013: http://derickrethans.nl/year-of-edits-2013.html Around the 0:55 mark you will see the editing activity due to Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. Derick's animation is a bit

[talk-ph] Blog article: Using OpenStreetMap for Disaster Risk Reduction

2014-01-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I finally posted my blog article regarding the Guagua OSM training that I attended last November 5 to 7. Typhoon Haiyan struck the day after the training and so I was able to tie the significance of the training in disaster risk reduction and management. Link:

[talk-ph] Map Give: The U.S. State Department supports OSM

2014-01-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Joining the ranks of organizations like the World Bank and the Red Cross, the U.S. State Department is throwing its support behind OpenStreetMap! They have created a stand-alone site called Map Give: http://mapgive.state.gov/ There's also a nice introductory video that also features Typhoon

Re: [talk-ph] Why we need OSM

2014-01-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
There's also the mirror of this article at Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/why-the-world-needs-openstreetmap-1495412839 The comments there provide an interesting look at how outsiders view OSM. On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: In case anyone asks you, a useful

Re: [OSM-talk] good intro slidesets about OSM

2014-01-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Steve Chilton s.l.chil...@mdx.ac.ukwrote: Any links or offers gratefully received. I usually do a search at SlideShare to look for inspiration: http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?q=openstreetmap ___ talk

[talk-ph] Test email

2013-12-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Test. Please ignore. ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

Re: [talk-ph] Section 1 of TPLEx is set to open Oct 30

2013-12-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
exit only: http://osm.org/go/4zalkFsV--?m= Section 1 will be opened by next year. On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: TPLEx is the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway and it continues the northward route of the SCTEx (Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway

Re: [talk-ph] SOTM-PH 2013 slides and photos

2013-12-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's a blog post about the event by Vasanthi in Bahasa Indonesia: http://openstreetmap.or.id/cerita-dari-state-of-the-map-philippines-2013/ On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:57 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Our first SOTM-PH event is over! Slides and photos here:

[talk-ph] Private data in Olongapo

2013-12-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Surely we don't want this kind of detail in OSM? http://osm.org/go/4zMu6yUSb?changeset=19561314 ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

[talk-ph] Polo shirts?

2013-12-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Polo_shirts We should make some using the OSMPH logo. :-) ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

Re: [talk-ph] UAV/Drone imagery over Tacloban

2013-12-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Nice! The distortion is quite annoying though. Anyway, the guys over at Drone Adventures have photographed various location in Haiti: http://www.droneadventures.org/2013/05/29/haiti/ Their photos are really well orthorectified. On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:42 PM, maning sambale

Re: [talk-ph] Typhoon Wind Speeds

2013-12-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Mark Cupitt markcup...@gmail.com wrote: In the Northern Hemisphere, Typhoons rotate in a Counter Clockwise Direction, so the actual wind on the ground has to be factored with the speed of travel of the typhoon itself. The faster the speed over ground of the

[talk-ph] Kate's HOT blog post on Typhoon Yolanda

2013-12-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello everyone, Kate Chapman (from HOT, and also OSM Foundation Board Director) has posted a blog article about her recent visit to Manila to talk about and learn how OSM is being used for Typhoon Yolanda efforts:

[talk-ph] Insane level of detail for 3-D mapping

2013-12-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I just saw the 3-D map of the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow and the level of detail is insane! http://map.f4-group.com/#lat=55.7513658lon=37.6152637zoom=17camera.theta=80camera.phi=-56.422 The data for St. Basil's Cathedral alone is composed of 2,600+ nodes, 550+ ways, and 50+

Re: [talk-ph] What's up with Olongapo?

2013-11-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
That's what I asked a week ago! https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2013-November/004783.html :) Anyway, there was one changeset in Olongapo that had the #uniHD comment. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/19022289 I think this means that this may be a project of the

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance / Downtime

2013-11-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everyone, There can be no editing tomorrow (Nov 28) from around 1:30am to 6:00am. Hopefully it can end earlier. -- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com Date: Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:34 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance /

[talk-ph] Google Street View car spotted on EDSA

2013-11-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Not OSM-related but definitely local mapping related: http://www.yugatech.com/gogle/google-streetview-car-spotted-along-edsa/ ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

Re: [talk-ph] Mountains and elevations removed at Biliran

2013-11-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Ervin, One way is to maintain a separate OSM file containing the contour lines that you can merge with the rest of the Philippines data before feeding it into mkgmap. On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Ervin Malicdem schad...@gmail.com wrote: Oops. I just place them back before I got your

Re: [talk-ph] 2013 OSMPH data stats so far

2013-11-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Hi guys, Here's a mid-year update of the basic OSMPH data stats (as of the June 30, 2013 Philippine extract). The % increase is in comparison to the start of 2013: OSM XML file size: 891 MB (9.9% increase) # Nodes: 4,574,470 (10.4% increase) # Ways

[talk-ph] Scientific American - What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move?

2013-11-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Link: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/critical-opalescence/2013/11/11/what-happens-to-google-maps-when-tectonic-plates-move/ This is a nice readable article on the accuracy of GPS coordinates and georeference satellite imagery, geodetic datums, and how geographers try to keep up with Earth's

Re: [talk-ph] [HOT] Typhoon Haiyan Mapping Progress

2013-11-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: Just found this map in the New York Times, which credits OpenStreetMap. Presumably this is the end result of all the initial mapping done on OSM?

[talk-ph] Typhoon Haiyan and OpenStreetMap

2013-11-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello everyone, The online response to mapping the areas affected by Typhoon Haiyan is very heartwarming. Thank you to everyone involved. Please do continue to map as the data is being used by first responders and relief workers. Most of the information about mapping efforts can be found on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Peter Barth osm-t...@won2.de wrote: * History mostly always gives No changesets in this area for areas smaller than whole europe This is because the test website uses a completely separate database from the main OSM website, except for Nominatim search

[OSM-talk] Typhoon Haiyan and OpenStreetMap

2013-11-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello everyone, The online response to mapping the areas affected by Typhoon Haiyan is very heartwarming. Thank you to everyone involved. Please do continue to map as the data is being used by first responders and relief workers. Most of the information about mapping efforts can be found on the

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

2013-11-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Forwarding this email from the main mailing list. Take note that this is a big redesign of the OSM website! (It may or may not be accepted.) Please do visit the test website at redesign.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org and check for bugs or improvement points. (You need to create a new account since

Re: [talk-ph] [HOT] Fwd: [CrisisMappers] First satellite post-typhoon Tacloban city maps available

2013-11-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi maning, If you look at the details, it says Base vector layers based on OpenStreetMap (C) OpenStreetMap contributors, Wikimapia.org ... On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:57 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Is there someone coordinating if we can access the raw imagery or at the

[talk-ph] State of the Map Taiwan 2013 - State of the Map in Asia presentation

2013-11-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, State of the Map Taiwain 2013 took place last Saturday, November 9, in Taipei and Taichi-san, from the OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan, gave a keynote speech about OSM in Asia. You can check out his presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/mapconcierge/20131109-sot-mtaiwan The

Re: [talk-ph] I would like to help

2013-11-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Jakub, Unfortunately, there is still no available satellite imagery after the disaster. Some people are working on this right now. What OSM mappers are doing right now is mapping using the existing pre-disaster imagery on the following task pages: http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/338

Re: [talk-ph] I would like to help

2013-11-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, can you please briefly tell me how to help if I have few hours of time? Which imaginery I should use? Bing? 2013/11/11 Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com Hi Jakub, Unfortunately, there is still no available satellite imagery after the disaster. Some people are working on this right now

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