Re: [talk-ph] Lightmap from the University of Heidelberg

2012-03-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
wrote: Can we do a project something like this, but shows Bus PUJ routes? :-) (from LTFRB official list) On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a map that shows which streets and roads have street lights (and tagged with lit=yes): http

[talk-ph] Pangasinan municipal admin boundaries

2012-03-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
19, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ed, As Wayne said, these are administrative borders marking the location of the boundary between the municipalities, at least where the lines intersect the road. Hi Wayne, These are OK (though they could be a bit shorter

Re: [OSM-talk] Esri donation to OpenStreetMap Foundation

2012-03-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys (especially the GIS people), It seems that Esri has donated an undisclosed amount of money to the OpenStreetMap Foundation. On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/19/esri-donation/

[talk-ph] Lightmap from the University of Heidelberg

2012-03-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's a map that shows which streets and roads have street lights (and tagged with lit=yes): http://lightmap.uni-hd.de/?c=121.02380275726318,14.547862464537904z=14 There's been a map like this in the past but this latest one was done by the people from the University of Heidelberg and loads

[talk-ph] Updated OSMPH Imagery Coverage Map

2012-03-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Based on the response to my other e-mail, I've gone ahead and deleted all known imagery outline ways in the Philippines from the database. I have also updated the Imagery Coverage Map and added the outline for the QuickBird imagery in Pangasinan, and the EO-1 imagery in Negros.[1] I

Re: [OSM-talk] Lightning fast car routing built on OpenStreetMap data, with draggable routes

2012-03-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: It has been mentioned by about everyone on Twitter (https://bitly.com/pGcc3J+)... I'm surprised there has been no conversation about it here. This had been announced at the dev mailing list: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2012-March/024558.html On

Re: [talk-ph] BGC C-5 flyover

2012-03-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Yup, I've confirmed that this flyover is now open. I've edited OSM to indicate such: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10967343 The flyover shape is just estimated. Somebody should get GPS track to confirm. :-) On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com

[talk-ph] Proposal to delete the imagery coverage outlines from the OSM database

2012-03-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, I propose to delete the imagery coverage outlines that are currently in the OSM database (most are tagged with the special outline=imagery tag). Since we already have an imagery coverage map[1], I think that there's no longer any need to retain these outlines in the database, especially

Re: [talk-ph] foursquare checked-in on openstreetmap

2012-03-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, As shared by maning, foursquare has switched to using OpenStreetMap data for their maps. They went with the MapBox Streets tileset which is provided by MapBox and was developed using MapBox's TileMill product. I actually find the MapBox Streets tileset gorgeous. I find a certain finesse

Re: [talk-ph] foursquare checked-in on openstreetmap

2012-03-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's a better map showing the MapBox Streets tileset and which can zoom to level 17 (it's centered on UPLB): http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/mapbox.mapbox-streets.html#17.00/14.16577/121.24221 On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, As shared

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] mapbook v0.02

2012-03-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Here's a nice tool to make those paper atlases from OSM data, though it requires that you have an OSM Mapnik setup already. -- Forwarded message -- From: Paul Norman penor...@mac.com Date: Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:03 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] mapbook v0.02 To:

Re: [talk-ph] BGC C-5 flyover

2012-03-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I neglected to confirm today if the flyover is passable now, but I can confirm that the flyover is indeed as good as finished as of Thursday night. It's been marked as highway=construction in OSM for months now. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:10 AM, tutubi tut...@backpackingphilippines.com wrote: is

Re: [talk-ph] [OSM-talk] iPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps

2012-03-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I find it discomforting to see that Puerto Princesa has apparently relocated to northeastern Laguna: http://ivan.sanchezortega.es/leaflet-apple.php?lat=14.424040444354699lon=121.52252197265625z=11 :-p On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Totor totor_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, I recognize the

[talk-ph] OSM vs. RoadGuide.ph redux

2012-03-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Early last year, I did a visual comparison of between the OSMPH Garmin map and the Garmin map produced by RoadGuide.ph, concentrating on areas where OSM is better (since RoadGuide, by default, has more data than OSM): http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/is_rg_better_than_osm I did a

[talk-ph] Today is the 500th birthday of Gerardus Mercator

2012-03-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardus_Mercator Gerardus Mercator was born on March 5, 1512 in Rupelmonde in what is now Belgium. He is primarily known as the cartographer who invented the Mercator projection, of which the spherical variant is used by various online map websites like Google Maps,

[talk-ph] Some results of the new Bing imagery

2012-03-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, A lot of you have started tracing using the new Bing imagery and I'd like to highlight some of them: 1. Tuguegarao, Cagayan: http://osm.org/go/42mDB1p 2. Ilagan, Isabela: http://osm.org/go/42iZ4XQ 3. Alicia, Isabela: http://osm.org/go/4z3R2CIX- (as well as nearby towns) 4. Vigan, Ilocos

[talk-ph] Tarlac is now completely covered with high-resolution imagery

2012-03-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Due to the new Bing imagery, Tarlac is now currently the only province that is completely covered by high-resolution imagery: http://forge.codedgraphic.com/osm/imagery_coverage/#15.524482,120.47676,10 This means that we can potentially have a fairly complete map of Tarlac if we wanted

Re: [talk-ph] Node density visualization

2012-02-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Correction, that should be 0.01°, not 0.1°. :-) On 2/25/12, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I created a visualization showing the node density of OSM data in the Philippines taken from the 2012-01-02 Geofabrik extract. Each pixel represents a 0.1°×0.1° degree square

[talk-ph] OpenMapSurfer - a new OSM-based web map

2012-02-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, There's a relatively new web map based on OSM data called OpenMapSurfer: http://www.openmapsurfer.uni-hd.de/?zoom=9lat=14.53702lon=121.07465layers=B000FF (OSM Wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenMapSurfer ) Its map style is reminds me quite a lot of Google Maps' style at

Re: [talk-ph] More Bing satellite imagery all over the Philippines!

2012-02-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
follow the link in the previous e-mail anymore.) Please inform me of any feedback. Also, the Theos, Quickbird, and a few other JAXA imagery are not yet included. Eugene On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I created an initial slippy map

Re: [talk-ph] More Bing satellite imagery all over the Philippines!

2012-02-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
estimate that Bing has 30-40% of the Philippines' land area covered, compared to Google's 55-60%. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I have updated this to include all known Bing imagery including the (known) history of Bing updates. You can now

Re: [talk-ph] More Bing satellite imagery all over the Philippines!

2012-02-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
:50 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I have updated this to include all known Bing imagery including the (known) history of Bing updates. You can now select/desselect the coverage from the control panel on the upper-right corner. http://forge.codedgraphic.com/osm

Re: [talk-ph] More Bing satellite imagery all over the Philippines!

2012-02-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Wow!  That's a lot! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150670283647597set=a.10150670283217597.446504.345455082596type=1theater On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I looked around some more and here

Re: [talk-ph] Wanting to learn and contribute

2012-02-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Miles, I hope that all of your family, friends, and neighbors are safe in Guihulngan. As for mapping, as you've said, there is no satellite imagery in your city from which we can trace roads and other features in OSM. (The EO-1 imagery discussed in December has a low resolution.) So the best

[talk-ph] Be careful with unaligned Bing imagery!

2012-02-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, With all of the new Bing imagery that's available, I'd like to remind everyone to be careful with unaligned Bing imagery. Here's an example showing how two different satellite images are not aligned with each other (look at the LBC roof sign):

[talk-ph] Sygic satnav app for Android

2012-02-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
This Android satnav app named Sygic was shared in a forum I'm subscribed to. Based on the following screenshot of the app (showing Malate, Manila), it seems their map data is quite detailed and definitely does not come from NAVTEQ, Tele Atlas, Google or even OSM. http://i41.tinypic.com/n69h15.png

[talk-ph] tutubi's 2nd OSM anniversary

2012-02-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
http://www.backpackingphilippines.com/2012/01/two-years-of-mapping-philippines.html Hope there's more to come! :) ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

[talk-ph] More Bing satellite imagery in Mindanao!

2012-02-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, While I was fixing a riverbank in Cotabato City, I ran into some new Bing satellite imagery! And there are 3 separate sets of them! 1. Here's the outline around Cotabato City: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/149145097 2. Here's the outline along the western coast of Central

Re: [talk-ph] More Bing satellite imagery in Mindanao!

2012-02-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
/149157736 - Zamboanga del Norte, del Sur, Sibugay It seems Microsoft went on a satellite imagery shopping spree! :D There's also new imagery covering General Santos City all the way to Davao del Sur. I haven't traced the outline yet. On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea

[talk-ph] More Bing satellite imagery all over the Philippines!

2012-02-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Oh my! There's a LOT of new imagery in Mindanao. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/149157752 - Bukidnon and North Cotabato http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/149157751 - Maguindanao to Sarangani http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way

Re: [talk-ph] More Bing satellite imagery all over the Philippines!

2012-02-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
days ago. [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10589994 On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: ## Edited subject; was More Bing satellite imagery in Mindanao! ## It's official, 2012 will be the busiest year for OpenStreetMap Philippines

Re: [talk-ph] what features the top 20 PH mappers are mapping

2012-02-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I think that should be read as will only display tomorrow the changes made to the data [today] :) On 2/3/12, Totor totor_...@yahoo.com wrote: Nice information, I wonder though, how they can predict the future : Note: This ranking [...] will only display the changes made to the data

[talk-ph] Did somebody do a mapping party or mapping session in Davao City?

2012-02-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The following user accounts have started editing in and around Davao City yesterday and today: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nyna/edits http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/sheilamaybautista/edits http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Kibun/edits http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kaloy/edits

Re: [talk-ph] Philippines License Change-over Readiness - Contact and Remapping

2012-02-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: As for the actual remapping, my guess is that it won't be easy as there will be nice maps of places that no one else knows and you can't get to easily. Perhaps these should simply be left alone. What would be very helpful

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: I am just explaining the legal basis behind copyright and copyleft : Copyright says that I own all my work and you have no right to copy it, copyleft says you are allowed to copy it under certain conditions

Re: [talk-ph] eye3 hexicopter DSLR take flight for $999 - Aerial Mapping

2012-01-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
If the price is reasonable and competitive with existing companies (I don't know of any), then there might be a viable market. There are plenty of applications for aerial photography and not just for mapping. Besides, Google Maps/Earth is not always up-to-date. :-) On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:04

Re: [talk-ph] Several portions of Makati now under Taguig's jurisdiction - what to do next?

2012-01-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
As tutubu said, this ruling will definitely appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. So I guess we should wait for it. As for the actual tagging, I prefer tagging the actual situation on the ground. That is, which city's signs you can see on the affected areas. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:33

Re: [talk-ph] osmphgps garmin map now divided into 5 tiles

2012-01-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's that KML file maning linked overlaid on Google Maps if you're lazy in opening Google Earth or another suitable GIS application. :) http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http:%2F%2Fdl.dropbox.com%2Fu%2F2096185%2Fsplit.kml On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:31 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Mass revert now??

2012-01-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
While it's probably true that remapping in Australia would probably lead to lesser quality data since there's no more Nearmap to trace from (but only with respect to positional attributes), I don't think remapping in most of the rest of the world would lead to loss of data and quality. I've

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Mass revert now??

2012-01-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/10/2012 12:16 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: In short, this remapping exercise I'm doing actually leads to better data quality. So I disagree with your assertion that the license change is a disruptive change

Re: [talk-ph] ph data stats 20101125

2012-01-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
91,461 kilometers of roads? That possibly means that OSMPH has even more roads than Accu-map's Vector GPS: http://www.vector.com.ph/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9t=188 5,282 km of roads were added, making it a total of 83,649 km (December 2011 update) (Of course, comparing road data lengths is not

[talk-ph] Papers on Mapping Gawad Kalinga Villages

2011-12-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, If you remember the Gawad Kalinga Mapping from January 2011[1], Philip Paar, the German researcher who initiated this project, and Jörg Rekittke, a faculty member (?) at the National University of Singapore, have published papers related to their project to map GK villages. First paper:

[talk-ph] Better GPS satellites upcoming in the next few years

2011-12-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
http://www.pcworld.com/article/246128/what_the_nextgen_gps_satellite_upgrade_means_for_you.html According to the article, the new GPS satellites will provide better accuracy (possibly down to 3 feet), more reliable coverage (under trees or besides skyscrapers, and maybe somewhat indoors), and a

Re: [talk-ph] Greenhills Christmas/Mapping Party on December 17!

2011-12-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
=o.150987638336629type=1 So go on and add yourself to our Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/150987638336629/ On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, To cap off a wonderful year of mapping in the Philippines, let's celebrate

Re: [talk-ph] Charter Member

2011-12-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Like. :) On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Mario Basa mario.b...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Maning, Congratulations on becoming a charter member for OSGeo! Regards, Mario. ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org

[talk-ph] OSM Server Donation Drive 2011

2011-12-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, The Operations Working Group of the OSM Foundation is planning to invest in the OSM server infrastructure to provide greater performance and redundancy. To that end, they are asking for donations. Here's the announcement:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: The European definition of a database is a collection of independent works, data or other materials arranged in a systematic or methodical way and individually accessible by electronic or other means. Individual pixels comprising

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I think the word independent also applies to data and other materials. I don't think so. Claiming that a collection of data would not be a database if the Data is Not independent  does not make much sense

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: I see that you and Frederik disagreed here.  (FWIW I think he is right - a PNG file can clearly be seen as a database of pixel values.  It is an image too, and perhaps even a map or a photograph, but legally it would be hard to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:31 AM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: I see that you and Frederik disagreed here.  (FWIW I think he is right - a PNG

[talk-ph] Check out Nokia Maps

2011-11-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Without much fanfare, Nokia Maps (formerly Ovi Maps) has been steadily increasing their map data for the Philippines, both vector data and satellite imagery. Last time the subject of Nokia Maps' coverage was discussed in this mailing list was back in Feb 2010

[talk-ph] Time-lapse video of Earth taken from the ISS

2011-11-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Very beautiful especially the shots showing the aurorae and lightning flashes: http://vimeo.com/32001208 ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

[talk-ph] Add OSM-PH on Google+!

2011-11-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
https://plus.google.com/112683195199513602367 And you can also Like us on Facebook, if you haven't done so yet: https://www.facebook.com/OSMPH ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

[talk-ph] The Pateros Mapping Party is this week's Featured Image on the main OSM Wiki

2011-11-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Check it out on the main page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page Link to the image page itself: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Pateros_Mapping_Party_activity_via_ITO.png ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org

[talk-ph] More uses of OpenStreetMap in the wild

2011-11-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
KOMIKON 2010 website showing how to get to Starmall EDSA: http://www.komikon.org/how-to-get-to-starmall-edsa/ Tian Tian Hotpot showing its location along Arnaiz Avenue in Makati: http://www.tiantianhotpot.com/location-map/ A local business showing its location in Bangkal, Makati:

Re: [talk-ph] ASTER GDEM is now released for civilian use!

2011-10-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Interesting. It's kinda expected that it will have poor data in places with skyscrapers. I don't think remote sensing is currently sophisticated enough to distinguish buildings from surrounding features. But, basing on your visualizations, it *seems* that ASTER data has a higher resolution than

[talk-ph] ASTER GDEM is now released for civilian use!

2011-10-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Exciting map geek news! Version 2 of the ASTER GDEM data[1] has just been officially released for civilian use![2] Some of you may have been aware of the ASTER GDEM map data that was released back in 2009 (Version 1). This data contains the 3D elevation of 99% of the earth at a

[talk-ph] CarNAVi is still using OSM data

2011-10-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, If you've been on this mailing list long enough, you might be aware that a local PND manufacturer named CarNAVi[1] uses some OSM data in their maps (building polygons at least)[2][3]. Well, I went to their sales booth at Robinsons Galleria recently and checked out if they were still

[talk-ph] Mindanao Rural Development Plan conducted mapping workshops near CDO

2011-10-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I got this interesting bit of news: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/MRDP-Mindanao-Rural-Development-Plan-3963446.S.76504503?view=gid=3963446type=memberitem=76504503trk=eml-anet_dig-b_nd-pst_ttle-cn To quote: MRDP (Mindanao Rural Development Plan) is currently conducting workshops on Web Based

Re: [talk-ph] ASTER GDEM is now released for civilian use!

2011-10-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, but it does have useful data in many of the locations where SRTM has voids. I don't know if this has improved already for V2. On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Exciting map geek news! Version 2 of the ASTER GDEM data[1] has just been

Re: [talk-ph] Last 2 NCR mapping parties for 2011

2011-10-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
/12/11, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, We are looking to have a couple more (simple) mapping parties before 2011 ends. We are thinking of targeting October 22, 29 or November 5, and then December 3 or 10. Listed below are some possible places we could tackle

Re: [OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu

2011-10-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I forwarded your announcement to my local OSM mailing list and one of us tried the instructions both on the email and the wiki page and have run into a few problems: http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-ph@openstreetmap.org/msg03520.html This might prove to be useful feedback. On Mon, Oct 10, 2011

Re: [OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu

2011-10-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Kai, This is pretty interesting. Thanks for setting this up. How does this whole thing handle the coastlines? Thanks, Eugene On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, with the recent need to crack down on tile scrapers and apps to not over

[talk-ph] Mapping buildings in Marikina

2011-09-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
If you're obsessed with detailed mapping, you might want to be inspired with what maning has done in Marikina so far: http://osm.org/go/4zhZBnGc It looks like he has covered around 30% of the city so far. :) ___ talk-ph mailing list

Re: [talk-ph] OSM-PH @ Software Freedom Day 2011

2011-09-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
the pictures on Facebook soon. I'll also try to upload the presentation slides as well. :) Eugene (osm:seav) On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Software Freedom Day 2011 will already be held this coming Saturday, September 17

Re: [talk-ph] Maning Sambale at State of the Map in Denver

2011-09-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's another photo, this time of most of the attendees. Try to spot maning! :) On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/harrywood/6142645789/ What's the context of this photo, Maning

Re: [talk-ph] Maning Sambale at State of the Map in Denver

2011-09-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Oops. URL: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:SOTM11_denver.jpg On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Here's another photo, this time of most of the attendees. Try to spot maning! :) On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea

Re: [talk-ph] OSM-PH @ Software Freedom Day 2011

2011-09-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Software Freedom Day 2011 will already be held this coming Saturday, September 17 at the University of Santo Tomas. OpenStreetMap Philippines will be conducting a workshop on OSM at 1 of the 5 breakout sessions in the afternoon from 1 to 4 pm at the AMV Hall

Re: [talk-ph] OSM celebrates 7th birthday!

2011-08-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
This is maybe the coolest OSM 7th anniversary cake: http://openstreetmapconsultant.com/2011/openstreetmap-7th-birthday/ Edible map tiles! :) On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:09 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Just a short note that OSM is celebrating it's 7th birthday:

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Scholarship program to State of the Map 2011

2011-08-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
for this scholarship,  please tell us, as we prepare the nominations letter. Of course you can nominate yourself and send them directly to the scholarship organizers. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andre, I agree that it's a bit tight. But I asked

Re: [talk-ph] Ultimate mapping challenge: marking the Station Balanacan in OSM

2011-08-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
100ths of a second would then mean an accuracy of about 28 centimeters or less than a foot. The manhole cover is certainly larger than a foot so it's extremely accurate indeed. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: maning sambale wrote, On Friday, 12 August, 2011

Re: [OSM-talk] data reconciliation tools

2011-07-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Color-coded map of ODbL status http://osm.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/map/ The problem with this ODbL map is that it only shows the status of highways. No nodes, other ways, nor relations.

Re: [talk-ph] Planned skillshare event in San Pablo City

2011-07-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165506783514696 Date is on July 30, Saturday and the venue is somewhere in SM City San Pablo. :-) On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:42 PM, ianlopez ian_lopez_1...@yahoo.com wrote: After a few days of deep thought, I've decided to organize an

[talk-ph] State of the Map Europe presentation slides

2011-07-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, State of the Map Europe is now done and if you're interested to learn what was presented, please check out the following page: http://sotm-eu.org/schedule Most talks have presentation slides available and you can see them by clicking on the PDF icon. There's lots of interesting stuff

Re: [OSM-talk] Orphaned Relations

2011-07-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
It's possible that some relations were unintentionally emptied of their members. In some editors, that would make these relations then invisible. For some of these relations, someone would have noticed something missing and then recreated the relation. For others, the emptying might need to be

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM in Wikimania 2011

2011-07-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
. I'm presently in Jerusalem, and hope that OSM-ers from Israel and Palestine can take part in Haifa, will let them know. (I may be leaving the week before :( ) -Mikel == Mikel Maron == +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron From: Eugene Alvin Villar sea

[OSM-talk] OSM in Wikimania 2011

2011-07-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi everyone, I'm going to Wikimania 2011 in Haifa, Israel this year (thanks to their scholarship program) and I'm wondering if there are any other OSMers going to the conference. I'd certainly love to meet other OpenStreetMappers from other countries. :-) Looking at the schedule, there are a

[talk-ph] Save the date! July 23 Mapping Party in southwestern Makati!

2011-07-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Our next Metro Manila Mapping Party will be on July 23, Saturday. This time we will be tackling southwestern Makati, namely the portions of Makati southwest of SLEX. This includes portions of Magallanes, Bangkal, Pio del Pilar, San Isidro, and Palanan: http://osm.org/go/4zhE98UT-?m

[talk-ph] The navigation system in our brains

2011-07-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Here's an interesting article from 2009 showing how our brains help us to navigate the world and why there are people who can get so hopelessly lost. http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2009.11-health-global-impositioning-systems/ I guess most of us in the list have a natural talent

Re: [talk-ph] OSM, planet.pm (perl module installing), planetosm-excerpt-area.pl in Mac OS X

2011-07-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
This might be moot, but the simplest way to use a Perl module is to just copy the module directory/file to the same directory as the Perl script that uses it (assuming that the Perl module is all Perl code--if the module links to non-Perl code such as C libraries, then you need to actually install

[talk-ph] An OSM presentation by Peter Batty

2011-06-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The presentation shows some new and some not-so-new developments in the OpenStreetMap world: http://www.slideshare.net/pmbatty/whats-new-with-openstreetmap Peter's blog post about the presentation: http://geothought.blogspot.com/2011/06/speaking-at-openstreetmap-meetup-in.html

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:42 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: The rotten thing here is that the ODBL fork has hijacked the domain name and servers, because of mainly because a majority let them do it. So I feel it very unfair to call the

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:22 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: @Eugene Please do not extend the discussion with incompatible examples. My example fits exactly the description of what is called forking: Try

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:49 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Every open source project I can think of has a fixed set of principals by which the code will be licensed under, and the license defines the sort of people that will join and help out, those requiring you to sign

Re: [talk-ph] Makati or Makati City?

2011-06-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
City is superfluous. You can remove the same for most other cities. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:16 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Two variants of the Makati tags is_in:city Makati - 320 Makati City - 1 addr:city Makati - 1231 Makati City - 11 Obviously, Makati is

[talk-ph] Before-and-after map for the Pateros Mapping Party

2011-06-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Image page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Pateros_Mapping_Party_before_and_after.png Actual image: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/3/34/Pateros_Mapping_Party_before_and_after.png Map of depicted location: http://osm.org/go/4zhHgX3DE-

[talk-ph] Garmin's City Navigator Southeast Asia map

2011-06-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, I've only just learned today that Garmin is selling an official map for Southeast Asia for $99: https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=89538 They don't have detailed coverage for the Philippines, but major urban areas (at least Metro Manila, Cebu, Davao) seem to have enough detail.

[talk-ph] Speedtest.net uses OSM

2011-06-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Anyone who's concerned with broadband Internet speed surely knows of the website speedtest.net. Well, I visited it recently and was pleasantly surprised to see that it's using OSM tiles (I think coming from CloudMade) to show the map of the test servers. Nice! :-)

Re: [talk-ph] we may loose yahoo imagery by September 2011

2011-06-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The only places where Yahoo has imagery that Bing doesn't are the following: 1. Small parts of Pampanga: rural eastern parts of San Fernando; Sta. Ana; northern parts of San Simon. This area is partially covered by the mid-res SPOT5 imagery though. 2. Southern parts of Samal City including

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:01 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 June 2011 00:54, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:44 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 June 2011 00:40, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I am

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:44 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 June 2011 00:40, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I am not trying to apply patents to OSM. I am trying to use the example of patents to prove to you that your reasoning either something is CC-BY-SA or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:07 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 June 2011 01:46, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Let me try copyright-only examples. I can take up the full text of all of the works of William Shakespeare, compile it into a book with annotations

[talk-ph] Detailed subdivision mapping in Cebu

2011-06-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Done by Totor: http://osm.org/go/4tRH4mQAj-- :-) ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

Re: [talk-ph] Caviteño: Is Antero Soriano Highway a really major highway?

2011-06-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
survive without it (even with minor or major inconveniences of going around a similar alternate road), then it's not a trunk road. Or what will happen to the future volume traffic of CAVITEX if we close Soriano Hway? On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [talk-ph] Caviteño: Is Antero Soriano Highway a really major highway?

2011-06-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
A. Soriano. On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: A user wants to upgrade Antero Soriano Highway which connects Bacoor to Naic from a primary road to a trunk road. I'd like to get the opinion if this is a good move. For reference, Governor's Drive, which

[talk-ph] Caviteño: Is Antero Soriano Highway a really major highway?

2011-06-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
A user wants to upgrade Antero Soriano Highway which connects Bacoor to Naic from a primary road to a trunk road. I'd like to get the opinion if this is a good move. For reference, Governor's Drive, which connects Naic to Carmona, and Aguinaldo Highway, which connects Bacoor to Tagaytay, are both

Re: [talk-ph] Current state of GPS SatNav in the Philippines

2011-06-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
8. Other brands: Tomtom, Magellan, etc.: Using unknown maps, but there are experimental OSM maps for Magellan. Tomtom owns Tele Atlas, a map data company. And there are some satnav apps that use Tele Atlas data. A prominent example is the Blackberry Maps app. (Though Blackberry has decided to

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-dev] NOTICE: Scheduled Maintenance - 23rd June 2011

2011-06-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, There's a scheduled server maintenance 2 weeks from now. Eugene -- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com Date: Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:17 AM Subject: [OSM-dev] NOTICE: Scheduled Maintenance - 23rd June 2011 To: Talk Openstreetmap

Re: [talk-ph] philtrack using osm maps for vehicle tracking

2011-06-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hmmm, it seems that only OSM map tiles are used as a background to the GPS points. It would be nice if they also used OSM data to perform reverse geocoding. :-) On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:27 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: See here: http://www.philtrack.com/ An intro video

Re: [talk-ph] Pateros Mapping Party on June 11!

2011-06-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: corrected the subject header to June 11 On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, The weather forecasts were true and it was a wet and rainy Saturday yesterday so it's good that we postponed the Mapping

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