Re: [talk-ph] A look back at the early years of OpenStreetMap in the Philippines (2006-2008)

2011-06-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
image of Metro Manila: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1050/3170253158_21336b1da2.jpg On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I think you might find this interesting. Here are some links to the early years (2006-2008) of the OpenStreetMap project

Re: [OSM-talk] Building Equals Yes

2011-06-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi, Based on a sampling of WOEIDs your reverse geocoder has assigned to buildings in my metropolitan area, I can say that the only consistently correctly assigned woe: tag is the country tag. And basing on the Key Concepts link you provided, the WOEIDs seems to be centrally managed and not

Re: [talk-ph] Mapping Suggestion: Add details/amenities to gas stations

2011-06-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
. This is especially true for 7-Eleven's since 7-Eleven is just a partner establishment to Caltex and not under Caltex management. For Petron Treat, Shell Select, and others, I guess only putting the addr:*=* tag on the amenity=fuel object is OK. On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea

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

2011-06-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here is the current state of GPS-based satellite navigation systems in the Philippines: 1. Garmin-based: Using either OSMPH map or RoadGuide.ph map. 2. AVT/iNav: Using maps by Accu-map. http://www.avt.ph/ http://www.inav.ph/ 3. Asiatype/Accu-map: Using their own maps (flagship device: Vector

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

2011-06-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Additional: 9. Tons of free or paid apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Symbian, Java Mobile: Using various map data, usually either Google Maps or OSM. On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the current state of GPS-based satellite navigation systems

[talk-ph] Mapping Suggestion: Add details/amenities to gas stations

2011-06-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Here's another mapping suggestion: add details/amenities to gas stations (amenity=fuel[1]). Of course we should map co-located restaurants or shops within gas stations but we should also map the attached convenience stores (shop=convenience[2]) like Shell Select, 7-Eleven/Caltex Mini

[talk-ph] Some consumer reactions about using GPS/satnav in the Philippines

2011-06-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
See this blog post and the comments: http://www.yugatech.com/blog/toys-gadgets/do-you-really-need-gps-in-the-car/ (Andre even pitched in for OSM!) :-) One thing I learned, people actually use Wikimapia to plan trips! (It actually makes some sense, now that I think about it.)

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PGS coastline

2011-06-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Isn't PGS in the public domain since it's a work of the US federal government and in addition was automatically generated from Landsat imagery, which is also in the public domain? On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:56 PM, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: My account used for importing PGS coastlines

Re: [talk-ph] Tagging convention: names for city, municipal and barangay halls

2011-06-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
If you just need the geometric center of a town or city, I agree that there is no need to add a point for that. The renderers can already place labels in the geometric center. For example, the main OSM map style Mapnik already does this. See this example for Obando, Bulacan

Re: [talk-ph] Tagging convention: names for city, municipal and barangay halls

2011-06-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Rem, Interesting story. I didn't know about that. But it makes sense especially since many provinces in ARMM enjoy carving new towns out of old ones. I guess that's to provide turf to each political family there. Well, there's something new you learn everyday! Eugene On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at

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

2011-06-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Hurricane, Will the organizers help out in processing the US visas? 2 months is really, really short time to apply and be granted a US visa based on stories I've heard. Eugene On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Coast, Hurricane hurricane.co...@mapquest.com wrote: The State of the Map

[talk-ph] A look back at the early years of OpenStreetMap in the Philippines (2006-2008)

2011-05-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, I think you might find this interesting. Here are some links to the early years (2006-2008) of the OpenStreetMap project in the Philippines. Sometime in 2006 - The first node, segment, and way in the Philippines were created August 30, 2006 - First version of the WikiProject

[talk-ph] Grande Island Resort is using OSM

2011-05-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Grande Island Resort in Subic Bay is using OSM to show their location in their website: http://www.grandeislandresort.com/location.html Unfortunately, the marker shown in the map is about a hundred kilometers off the actual location of the resort: http://osm.org/go/4zMqrIm?m

Re: [talk-ph] Grande Island Resort is using OSM

2011-05-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
? On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Grande Island Resort in Subic Bay is using OSM to show their location in their website: http://www.grandeislandresort.com/location.html Unfortunately, the marker shown in the map is about a hundred kilometers off

Re: [talk-ph] Grande Island Resort is using OSM

2011-05-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
the most probable route of the ferry? On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: I just sent them an email message (though it was to sa...@grandeislandresort.com--there was no general email address). :-) On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:48 PM, maning sambale

Re: [talk-ph] Grande Island Resort is using OSM

2011-05-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ed, I think there is no problem with adding a non-GPS-based ferry route. There isn't any major routing decisions to be made for this short ferry ride and somebody else can improve the ferry route geometry in the future. I

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

2011-05-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pateros_Mapping_Party Eugene On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Because of the chance of thunderstorms this Saturday, we decided to postpone the Mapping Party itself to one, hopefully sunny

Re: [talk-ph] http://www.protectedplanet.net/

2011-05-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Maybe we can ask where they got their data and ask the source instead. Some of those protected areas, like the Sierra Madre area, are already in OSM. On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:18 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Noel, Sorry bu not fit for osm.

Re: [talk-ph] re typ of osm

2011-05-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi sam, I'm not an expert on Garmin typ files but if I remember correctly, typ files are tied to specific maps. So, you cannot use a RoadGuide typ file on OSM Garmin maps and vice versa. Rally is the (sorta) expert here on Garmin typ files. He's the one that developed the default style for the

Re: [talk-ph] Admin Boundary and Coastline

2011-05-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
There's no real need. The idea is that in the future we would be able to map out the exact municipal and provincial waters. But until then, making the admin boundaries just tackle land for the moment is manageable since data is much more readily available. Please reply if you have other

Re: [talk-ph] Admin Boundary and Coastline

2011-05-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:15 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Murlwe, I don't think that municipal/provincial waters should be clamped to the national waters. According to the UNCLOS

[talk-ph] Notes on using GADM or PhilGIS boundary data

2011-05-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello guys, Some of you may already know that there is a globally available data for administrative boundaries from country level down to the sub-municipality level (depending on country). This is the Global Administrative Areas (GADM) dataset http://gadm.org/. They have data for the Philippines

[talk-ph] Map of all building=yes ways

2011-05-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's a whimsical website that displays all ways (polygons) in OSM that are tagged building=yes with lots of associated metadata: http://buildingequalsyes.spum.org/ For example, here's 1800 Eastwood Avenue: http://buildingequalsyes.spum.org/id/2147516578 And here's Greenbelt 5:

Re: [talk-ph] MapCraft for organizing your mapping

2011-05-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
One problem I can see is that there's no way yet to redefine the slices. Additionally, there's no way to easily jump from one set of slices to another one nearby. But it's a much more useful tool compared to a similar one that uses a grid

[talk-ph] Pateros Mapping Party on May 28!

2011-05-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
OSM Wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pateros_Mapping_Party Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215576085127532 See you guys there! More details will be added in the days to come. :-) ___ talk-ph mailing list

Re: [talk-ph] recent coastline issues according to mkmap logs

2011-05-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
OK. I think I've fixed the Manila piers. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Wow. That was a mess. Hopefully I've fixed the ones in Bataan and Pampanga. Didn't touch the Manila piers (yet). On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:31 PM, maning sambale

[talk-ph] The Philippines has the 4th largest amount of OSM data in Asia

2011-05-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Well, at least according to the Geofabrik download site for Asia: http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/asia/ Ranking by compressed OSM XML file: 1. Japan - 720 MB 2. China - 69 MB 3. India - 54 MB 4. Philippines - 34 MB 5. Israel/Palestine - 23 MB Ranking by binary OSM PBF file: 1. Japan - 496 MB 2.

[talk-ph] Tagging suggestion: opening_hours=24/7

2011-05-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, To input the opening or operating hours of any establishment, you can use the opening_hours=* tag. The value has a special format and you can read about it here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_hours For example, opening_hours=Mo-Sa 09:00-19:00 means that the

Re: [talk-ph] Search by address on Garmin

2011-05-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Carlos, To add to what Maning said, there is already some address data in OSM and it's already searchable in other tools. The OSM-PH Garmin map is compiled using the mkgmap software and the developers are still trying to make it fully work. You can read an overview of some of the issues here:

[talk-ph] Like us on Facebook!

2011-05-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
BTW, if you haven't done so, like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/OSMPH :-) ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

[OSM-talk] [RFC] Draft Requirements and Agreement for OSMF Local Chapters

2011-05-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello all, The OSMF Local Chapters Working Group is moving towards building a framework for the recognition and collaboration with future OSMF Local Chapters all over the world. Having Local Chapters that involves local OSM contributors makes sense because OSMF cannot function everywhere and it

Re: [talk-ph] talk-ph Digest, Vol 33, Issue 24

2011-04-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Sam, I'd love to visit Davao as well, but that will be far into the future. I think Maning is the one in the best position to meet up with you as he travels parts of the Philippines for his work. So how did the meeting with Marloue go? Learned any new tricks? :-D Eugene (seav) On Fri, Apr

[talk-ph] New logo for OSM?

2011-04-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The OSM logo has been given the OSX treatment: http://raraken.deviantart.com/art/OpenStreetMap-Icon-Logo-174454488?q=gallery:Raraken/6244368qo=8 And Steve Coast is pushing for it to go live on the websites. What do you guys think? ___ talk-ph mailing

[talk-ph] Google Map Maker Party on May 21

2011-04-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi all, Just in case anyone is interested. There will apparently be a Google Map Maker Mapping Party on May 21. See this blog post for details: http://www.gtugphilippines.org/2011/04/may-21-mapping-party.html As far as I know, this is the first true Google Mapping Party in Metro Manila. There

Re: [talk-ph] Tagging suggestion: Use the branch=* tag!

2011-04-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
So does everyone agree that we should use branch instead of name:branch as the key for the tag? (I prefer branch because it's faster to type with autocomplete: br) On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:08 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing on the wiki, but, it used even outside

[talk-ph] Tagging suggestion: Use the branch=* tag!

2011-04-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, For establishments that have a branch name (like banks), put the branch name into the branch tag instead of stuffing it into the name tag. For example, the Bank of Commerce located near the San Miguel Corporation HQ in Ortigas is this node:

Re: [talk-ph] R1 extension now passable?

2011-04-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
to Tirona Highway and to complete the Zapote Interchange. The exit to Covelandia Road seems temporary. Current map of the area: http://osm.org/go/4zLq9@cb On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: R1 extension is not fully passable at the moment

[talk-ph] How should Island Cove be marked?

2011-04-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Here's Island Cove: http://osm.org/go/4zLrpgRg And I need an opinion. Would you consider Island Cove part of mainland Luzon that is just separated by water channels (kinda like river delta islands)? Or would you consider Island Cove as offshore islands of Luzon (kinda like Corregidor)?

Re: [talk-ph] slippy map showing admin boundaries

2011-04-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:05 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: A map showing administrative overlays http://beta.letuffe.org/?zoom=6lat=13.00511lon=121.23799layers=BFFFTTFTFTFFF admin_level=4 is still incomplete. Nice! It makes spotting the missing relations much

Re: [talk-ph] R1 extension now passable?

2011-04-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
R1 extension is not fully passable at the moment. The southbound side up to Kawit is now open to Class 1 and 2 vehicles. Class 3 will be allowed after Holy Week. The northbound side is still closed. I'll try to get a trace this Holy Week since I expect there would be no traffic. :-) On Fri,

Re: [talk-ph] Is there a recent bing hi-res shift correction?

2011-04-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
No shift on my patch (Muntinlupa and Las Pinas). On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:52 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed recently that my shift correction (using JOSM) for Marikina is not consistent anymore for some areas (within the same imagery). Is there some shift in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Are CT contributors are in breach of the CC-BY-SA license?

2011-04-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
IANAL, but as long as the data is currently being released as CC-BY-SA, then there is no breach of the CC license. CC-BY-SA only stipulates that the data, when published, must be under CC-BY-SA. It doesn't say that you cannot enter contracts promising to release the data *in the future* under

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Rights granted to OSMF (Section 2 of the CT)

2011-04-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:06 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: FSF, owner of GCC, has copyright assignment. On the other hand, OSMF's CT only has a rights grant (contributor still retains copyright on his own data), which is the same thing as what ASF's

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Are CT contributors are in breach of the CC-BY-SA license?

2011-04-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
is made available via the OSM API (and the OSM Planet), then I believe there is no problem. On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:23 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: IANAL, but as long as the data is currently being released

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 begins Sunday

2011-04-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Andre, If you check out the Philippines page http://www.odbl.de/philippines.html, most of the largest contributors have already accepted the Contributor Terms. Right now we are in phase 2. This means that people can *voluntarily* accept the CT if they want to. It's not mandatory yet.

[OSM-legal-talk] Rights granted to OSMF (Section 2 of the CT)

2011-04-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Some people have problems with section 2 of the proposed CT because of granting of rights to OSMF. Section 2 of CT 1.2.4[1]: [...] You hereby grant to OSMF a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable licence to do any act that is restricted by copyright, database right or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Rights granted to OSMF (Section 2 of the CT)

2011-04-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:00 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 April 2011 14:39, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Clearly this is not that big a problem for Apache contributors, why should it be a big problem for OSM contributors (setting aside the desire

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Rights granted to OSMF (Section 2 of the CT)

2011-04-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:25 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 April 2011 15:17, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: The point still stands. Granting rights to a central body (but not your copyright--you still retain that) is not unheard of in open communities

Re: [OSM-talk] License graph

2011-04-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Could you create a graph that shows the graph since you started collecting data in addition to or instead of just the last 48 hours? :-) This graph is very informative. On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if anyone else is already doing this but

Re: [OSM-talk] License graph

2011-04-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
believe the start point for the data was just barely off of the first graph. But I just added a 5 day graph. I will extend it as I get more data to show the long term trend. Toby On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Could you create a graph that shows

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Compliance timeline

2011-04-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:52 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 April 2011 20:38, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that this is the (only) critical issue. To be open contributions need to be given freely and without restriction, so as to avoid the current

Re: [talk-ph] Geo mystery: What is this weird northeast line running from San Juan to Montalban?

2011-04-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: 2) This is a water pipeline. -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com

Re: [talk-ph] Geo mystery: What is this weird northeast line running from San Juan to Montalban?

2011-04-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Wayne Manuel wdman...@gmail.com wrote: I've been wondering for years about this one too. I've always assumed it was a water pipeline. Any authoritative sources on this? Wayne Manuel For years? :-) ___ talk-ph mailing

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Compliance timeline

2011-04-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: to transfer rights to the OSMF. But, you still own rights to the data you contributed (you can give it however you want to anybody else). You're just giving OSMF the permission to release your data as part of a database.

Re: [OSM-talk] MapQuest release 3 new APIs / tools - XAPI, NPI (new!), Broken Poly tool (new!)

2011-04-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Ant, On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Antony Pegg ap...@nexuspro.com wrote: http://open.mapquest.com/xapi  - A running copy of Ian Dees' JXAPI plus a simple GUI based on Serge's UIXAPI - hopefully this will help spread the load and add one more XAPI instance to the pool This would be

Re: [OSM-talk] MapQuest release 3 new APIs / tools - XAPI, NPI (new!), Broken Poly tool (new!)

2011-04-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Antony Pegg ap...@nexuspro.com wrote: absolutely if you can explain it to me! please use small words :) Well, you can query XAPI by tag and/or by bounding box. The JXAPI software has a limitation that bounding box queries can only cover a maximum of 10 square

[talk-ph] Skyway Sucat-Alabang is now open

2011-04-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
http://business.inquirer.net/money/breakingnews/view/20110404-329322/Skyway-section-reaching-Alabang-opens-April-6 http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/04/05/11/skyway-extension-alabang-opens-april-6 http://abuggedlife.com/2011/04/06/omg-the-skyway-is-finally-complete/ GPS traces

Re: [talk-ph] Geofabrik's OSM Inspector now has multipolygon debugger

2011-04-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
relations looks OK except for outter/inner roles.  I edited a test brgy: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/371361 Please comment. On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Sample view: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=multipolygonlon

[talk-ph] Geofabrik's OSM Inspector now has multipolygon debugger

2011-04-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Sample view:

Re: [talk-ph] recent crash problems to osmphgps mapsource/roadtrip installers

2011-03-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
A highly technical solution to find out where the problem is is to slice the Philippine extract and compile each slice. The slice that crashes contains the data error and we can probably further slice that to zero in on the problem. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:02 PM, maning sambale

Re: [talk-ph] Provincial relations ( no not your far away relatives :-) )

2011-03-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Most of the maps in Wikipedia were modeled after the boundaries available in mapcentral.ph if the provincial websites didn't have them available. While creating these mapcentral derived maps in Wikipedia seems OK under the US copyright law (since only the uncopyrightable 'facts' were copied), they

[talk-ph] NLEX Marilao Exit needs GPS tracks

2011-03-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
http://osm.org/go/4zkAD5gS Both Bing and Yahoo show old imagery so we need GPS tracks to provide ground truth to the exit ramps. ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

[talk-ph] A user traced from Google Earth

2011-03-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Please check this changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/7636567 I have already contacted the user. ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

Re: [OSM-talk] odbl

2011-03-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote: There's a balance that needs to be struck, but people should understand that legal issues are core to OSM. If you want to contribute to a project and not ask questions about the legal issues concerning data you

Re: [talk-ph] Are real estate development maps fair game?

2011-02-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
to  exercise caution. I agree that real estate devs use our map for promotion but hopefully not this kind of advert: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/maning/diary/ (I believe murlwe removed them already) On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: But I

Re: [talk-ph] testing the address and street search in osmphgps garmin map

2011-02-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Noli, I'm still not sure what kind of app you want to do. Are you developing an app that will: 1. do geocoding and/or reverse geocoding using currently existing data in the OSM database? 2. or help in increasing the geocoding-related data in the OSM database? 3. or both? On Mon, Feb 28,

Re: [talk-ph] testing the address and street search in osmphgps garmin map

2011-02-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Noli Sicad nsi...@gmail.com wrote: Do you know any internet server provider in Phils who offers Linux, Apache, Postgres, PHP) and what is their monthly / yearly rate / price? You will have better luck finding a hosting provider that offers MySQL instead of

[talk-ph] News: Accu-map now has their own PND

2011-02-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The PND is called Vector: http://www.vector.com.ph/ Blog post from the launch event with pics: http://dlvr.it/Hm3Qc It's not AVT, which if I understand it correctly only licenses the map data from Accu-map. Vector seems like it's Accu-map's own product with the technology probably licensed form

Re: [talk-ph] how do I tag watchtowers?

2011-02-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Watchtowers can indeed be tagged as a ruin especially if its unused. We can always update to better tags when they exist in the future. As for lighthouses, see if you can pick something up here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lighthouse :-) On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:25 PM, tutubi

Re: [talk-ph] maps for mountaineers/ outdoor lovers

2011-02-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, We have decided that we will be having a separate outdoor recreation Garmin map for the hikers, mountaineers, mountain bikers, climbers, scuba divers, etc. This map will have contour lines for selected mountains as suggested. But unlike the main Garmin map, this will be updated only once

Re: [talk-ph] maps for mountaineers/ outdoor lovers

2011-02-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Well, if you want to get your hands dirty, you can actually DIY! The Garmin maps are compiled using mkgmap and you just need the raw OSM data (Geofabrik provides Philippine data extracts), the contour data (maybe Maning can share his data, but they were made using Groundtruth from NASA's SRTM

Re: [talk-ph] maps for mountaineers/ outdoor lovers

2011-02-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
To: Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com Cc: talk-ph@openstreetmap.org Received: Wednesday, 16 February, 2011, 4:18 PM eugene, you got my point exactly! been climbing mountains myself recently. last data uploaded by me in osm was trail to summit in kanlaon via guintubdan trail. trail tracks

Re: [talk-ph] GADM Import for Ilocos Norte

2011-02-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
This dataset is freely available for academic and other non-commercial use. Redistribution, or commercial use, is not allowed without prior permission. Nope, not compatible with OSM. Out of curiosity, I checked out the GADM data a few months ago and compared it with known data in OSM: they don't

Re: [talk-ph] Ifugao's southeastern border

2011-02-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:06 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: I'm inclined to delete the border along this part and transfer the tags to the corresponding parts of the river. I suggest we

[talk-ph] Ifugao's southeastern border

2011-02-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Ifugao's southeastern border looks like it should follow Magat River and it is currently placed about 1 km east of the river: http://osm.org/go/4z1w8Lq-- The river was presumably traced from Landsat which may be off by up to 50 meters. The borders were taken from NAMRIA topomaps and I have no

Re: [talk-ph] RFC re-tag Halsema Highway from primary to trunk

2011-02-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
near camarines norte On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: Recalling this discussion ... in the same light, shouldn't we upgrade the Bagabag - Bontoc road as trunk too since

Re: [talk-ph] Philippines Territorial Border

2011-02-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I wonder if we'll have an edit war with neighboring countries over the Spratlys. :-P On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Ian Haylock hayloc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've just updated the Territorial border for the Philippines. I used the map available here :

Re: [talk-ph] Philippines Territorial Border

2011-02-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if we'll have an edit war with neighboring countries over the Spratlys. :-P On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Ian Haylock hayloc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've just updated the Territorial border for the Philippines. I used the map available

Re: [talk-ph] RFC re-tag Halsema Highway from primary to trunk

2011-02-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: Recalling this discussion ... in the same light, shouldn't we upgrade the Bagabag - Bontoc road as trunk too since it connects Nueva Vizcaya - Ifugao - Mountain Province?  And it passes through the provincial capitols too.

Re: [talk-ph] QC Scout Area Mapping Party on February 12!

2011-02-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
is very much welcome! The attendees can then verify and refine the data you added from data collected on the field. :-) Eugene (osm:seav) On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, If you're on Facebook, you can signify your intent to attend

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Don't forget that because of the Mercator projection we use, a level 20 tile at the equator (like Singapore) shows the same spatial resolution as a level 19 tile at latitudes near 60 (N or S, like Helsinki). Helsinki at level 19:

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:59 AM, ant antof...@gmail.com wrote: On 09.02.2011 00:53, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Don't forget that because of the Mercator projection we use, a level 20 tile at the equator (like Singapore) shows the same spatial resolution as a level 19 tile at latitudes near 60

Re: [talk-ph] tagging rotund/roundabout

2011-02-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Nobody has any comments? :-) On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, Mabuhay/Welcome Rotonda is no longer a rotunda. Also, Pasay Rotonda has long been gone but the name remains. In the 70s I think there used to be a rotunda at EDSA's intersection

Re: [talk-ph] Automatic road tracing from satellite imagery?

2011-02-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
. Once the basic code/api is released by Bing, I'm sure osm-geeks can develop the algorithm much better. ;) On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Here's something somebody whipped up to play around with things: http://maps.qualitystreetmap.org/bingtracing

Re: [talk-ph] tagging rotund/roundabout

2011-02-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Yes, Mabuhay/Welcome Rotonda is no longer a rotunda. Also, Pasay Rotonda has long been gone but the name remains. In the 70s I think there used to be a rotunda at EDSA's intersection with Timog and East Avenue as well as EDSA with Quezon Avenue (I saw old aerial images at the Geodetic Engineering

[talk-ph] Automatic road tracing from satellite imagery?

2011-02-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
See this blog post: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2011/02/03/automatically-detect-roads-with-bing-aerial-imagery.aspx And this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR0WV2dGIRc ___ talk-ph mailing list

Re: [talk-ph] Automatic road tracing from satellite imagery?

2011-02-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's something somebody whipped up to play around with things: http://maps.qualitystreetmap.org/bingtracing/ On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:37 AM, George Tujan gtu...@gmail.com wrote: now that's pretty cool! On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: See

Re: [talk-ph] QC Scout Area Mapping Party on February 12!

2011-02-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
...@gmail.com wrote: I propose we dedicate time/session for a bing tracing tutorial (how to calibrate/re-align imagery, etc.) On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Trace away! We can always correct things with data from on the ground. :-) On Fri

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: On 2 February 2011 19:05, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 02/02/2011 06:39 PM, Peter Miller wrote: Frederik has explained how it can be argued that BY-SA's private use exception allows online mash-ups.

[talk-ph] Zamboanga City had their Google Map Maker Mapping Party

2011-01-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
This is technically not OSM-related, but I guess some of you might be interested to know. http://gtugphilippines.blogspot.com/2011/01/gtug-zamboanga-mapping-party-success.html As far as I know, this is the second generic Google Mapping Party in the Philippines. The first was in Gen. Santos City

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM 2010 schedule published - looks great.

2011-01-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Don't you mean 2011? :-D On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I know that you have been waiting to see the schedule for State of the Map 2010. And now I know that you will love it.  The SotM team has done a spectacular job of soliciting and acquiring a great

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM 2010 schedule published - looks great.

2011-01-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Oops. Please ignore. :-P On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Don't you mean 2011? :-D ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [talk-ph] QC Scout Area Mapping Party on February 12!

2011-01-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, If you're on Facebook, you can signify your intent to attend on the event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150032921716419 See you! Eugene On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Our next Mapping Party will be on February 12

Re: [talk-ph] QC Scout Area Mapping Party on February 12!

2011-01-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Trace away! We can always correct things with data from on the ground. :-) On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:58 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Is bing recent enough for tracing building in this area? On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote

[talk-ph] QC Scout Area Mapping Party on February 12!

2011-01-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Our next Mapping Party will be on February 12, 2011, Saturday and we will be tackling the Quezon City Scout Area. This is basically the area bounded by Quezon Avenue, EDSA, and Diliman Creek, and covers the barangays South Triangle, Paligsahan, Laging Handa, Sacred Heart, Kamuning,

Re: [talk-ph] OSM vs. RoadGuide.ph

2011-01-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
:57 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, If anyone is interested to see the differences between RoadGuide.ph and OpenStreetMap, then check out this article I wrote in the OSM Wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RoadGuide.ph If you have a Garmin GPS device then you most

Re: [talk-ph] Bing Maps has an updated satellite image of Metro Manila?

2011-01-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
neighboring towns of Laguna where I always find myself driving off-road :P -- --- I explore, therefore I blog. http://www.backpackingphilippines.com On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Other new areas covered (no outlines yet

[talk-ph] Bing Maps has an updated satellite image of Metro Manila?

2011-01-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Is it just me or does Bing have an updated satellite imagery of Metro Manila? And up to zoom level 19 too. And unlike the earlier image, some parts are misaligned. Hmmm... Maybe they also have new satellite imagery elsewhere? ___ talk-ph mailing list

Re: [talk-ph] Bing Maps has an updated satellite image of Metro Manila?

2011-01-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
. On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me or does Bing have an updated satellite imagery of Metro Manila? And up to zoom level 19 too. And unlike the earlier image, some parts are misaligned. Hmmm... Maybe they also have new satellite

Re: [talk-ph] Bing Maps has an updated satellite image of Metro Manila?

2011-01-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, and Lucban. Ian Lopez and Tutubi, you can now trace from Bing in your hometowns! And Google doesn't have your towns yet in hi-res. On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the barrage of email. :-p And here's another imagery from Bing. This is is a set

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