Re: [OSM-talk] A plea for meaning ful changeset comments

2010-07-31 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote: You spend an hour doing edits, then cannot be bothered to spend a minute to think of a good changeset comment. so how do *you* summarise adding POIs and side streets and putting in

Re: [OSM-talk] A plea for meaning ful changeset comments

2010-07-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
+100! I very much agree with the emphasis on the community aspect of a nice (doesn't have to be great) changeset comment. Code versioning systems support revision comments and good comments help people who maintain the software understand ones contributions. Even Wikipedia highly values edit

Re: [talk-ph] OSM, Walking-papers and local Government, HS Students, Subv Owners.

2010-07-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Noli, The Metro Manila page on the wiki is definitely not updated. And we're actually using Walking Papers during the Mapping Parties in Metro Manila such as during the Marikina Mapping Party. We definitely could use some outreach activities. I think there has been little in the way of

[talk-ph] Classification of the NLEx Tabang Spur Road

2010-07-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, I noticed that MapQuest doesn't render NLEx's Tabang Spur Road in lower zoom levels[1] and this is apparently because it is tagged as highway=motorway_link. Is this the correct classification? I think the whole spur road should still be highway=motorway and the entry/exit ramps are the

Re: [talk-ph] Classification of the NLEx Tabang Spur Road

2010-07-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
=0.020542,0.039053t=kz=15 On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Well, unlike the SCTEX-NLEX link road, the Tabang Spur Road is named Road and not Link. In addition, the spur road itself has ramps from the Krus road [1][2] which suggests that the Tabang Spur Road

Re: [talk-ph] better ways to coordinate coastline mapping?

2010-07-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
around 25% of all jagged coasties Less a thousand sawtooth segments to go. Keep it up guys. On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to maning's diary entry http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/maning/diary/11240 we're making good progress

Re: [talk-ph] SOTM 2010 OSM-PH poster

2010-07-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Thanks! :-) On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Sorbi Ildefonso sorbi.ildefo...@gmail.comwrote: The poster looks really good! Great work sir! =) ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

Re: [talk-ph] better ways to coordinate coastline mapping?

2010-07-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's a little bit more elaboration on the problem of coastlines in Mapnik. This information can be found at the OSM Wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Coastline Unlike every other feature in the OSM database, coastlines are rendered differently in Mapnik. The Mapnik rendering software

Re: [talk-ph] SOTM 2010 OSM-PH poster

2010-07-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Unfortunately, the date for the Cavite Mapping Party is now wrong on the poster. :-p On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:50 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28698...@n02/4795340642/ On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com

Re: [talk-ph] cebu map errors

2010-07-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi tutubi, Have you seen OpenStreetBugs? You should add your bug reports also here so that the exact location is immediately available and visible (as opposed to trying to describe the location by text). http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/ No account is needed to file bugs here. :-) On Mon,

[talk-ph] Weird contributions in Southern Quezon

2010-07-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5196603 ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator

2010-07-12 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I would like to know how people are using the tag name and/or operator. It was obvious for me that operator might come as an additional

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 2 Public Alpha

2010-07-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
NOTE: Not for general consumption yet. Not for newbies--use the original Potlatch for that. Please report bugs to the Wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch_2 -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net Date: Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM

[talk-ph] Coastlines side question: Do we replace place=island nodes with place=island coastline ways?

2010-07-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello guys, Here's a question. Some thousands of place=island nodes were imported from the GNS database. Should we replace/delete these nodes on favor of the coastline ways? The OSM Wiki says that place=island can be applied to either a node or a way. And since I've been replacing POI nodes and

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Announcing help.openstreetmap.org

2010-07-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Stack Overflow for OpenStreetMap! -- Forwarded message -- From: Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu Date: Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:06 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] Announcing help.openstreetmap.org To: OpenStreetMap Announce annou...@openstreetmap.org, OpenStreetMap Talk t...@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] maori/english search oddities for nz towns

2010-07-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: 2 Part answer: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/556706 Aotearoa is used because it is the default name if it can't find a language match. Firefox sends a language sequence of EN-AU, EN, ...

Re: [OSM-talk] Area-type objects and ways along its boundaries

2010-07-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
It really depends on how the boundaries are legally defined. In my country, boundaries between barangays (the smallest political unit) in a city or municipality often are defined in terms of roads especially in urban cities and municipalities. The boundary is not even the centerline but the road

[talk-ph] Sawtooth Coastlines Webmap v1.1

2010-07-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Good news everyone! I have updated the webmap to v1.1. Maning has now integrated the sawtooth detection script into his OSM-PH Garmin workflow and I have updated the webmap to fetch the detected sawtooth data from maning's dropbox account. The webmap should now provide near-daily updates on the

Re: [talk-ph] better ways to coordinate coastline mapping?

2010-07-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Tuesday, 06 July, 2010 11:57 AM: To clarify things, the sawtooth detection script is quite naive. It simply detects if there are at three or more series of nodes where each pair of adjacent

Re: [talk-ph] Sawtooth Coastlines Webmap v1.1

2010-07-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's the link to the map if you don't want to search for the URL in the previous emails: http://forge.codedgraphic.com/osm/sawtooth_coastlines/ On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Good news everyone! I have updated the webmap to v1.1. Maning has now

Re: [talk-ph] Sawtooth Coastlines Webmap v1.1

2010-07-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Oh yeah, it will take a few seconds to load the data. I haven't managed to figure out how to add a Loading icon on the map yet. Sorry for the flood of emails. On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Here's the link to the map if you don't want to search

Re: [talk-ph] better ways to coordinate coastline mapping?

2010-07-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
...@gmail.com wrote: I can load it in my public dropbox. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Once we are done with the large islands, the next step is to do the smaller islands. Ian Haylock has helpfully provided the PGS coastlines[1

Re: [talk-ph] better ways to coordinate coastline mapping?

2010-07-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
on yoursawtooth_coastlines map though. ed On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: HI guys, Here's an *initial* webmap showing where the jagged coastlines are as of July 3: http://forge.codedgraphic.com/osm/sawtooth_coastlines

Re: [talk-ph] better ways to coordinate coastline mapping?

2010-07-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Anyway, it seems that Negros is actually the cleanest large island in terms of coastlines. :-) On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: To clarify things, the sawtooth detection script is quite naive. It simply detects if there are at three or more series

Re: [talk-ph] better ways to coordinate coastline mapping?

2010-07-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Once we are done with the large islands, the next step is to do the smaller islands. Ian Haylock has helpfully provided the PGS coastlines[1] for the Philippines last year[2] which he edited to combine ways. PGS itself was automatically generated by a software by analyzing the Landsat

Re: [talk-ph] SOTM 2010 OSM-PH poster

2010-07-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
://forge.codedgraphic.com/osm/sotm_2010_osmph_poster_draft_2.pdf(temporary link) Comments and corrections are greatly appreciated. :-) Eugene On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Hi guys, It seems maning can't go to Spain for the OSM State of the Map conference

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: mailing list for openstreetmap philippines local chapter/organization

2010-07-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I was thinking of talk-ph-org so that it will come after talk-ph. I guess Mike's naming convention fits my idea. :-) Now that I think about it, since we *do* plan to eventually become an official chapter, talk-ph-chapter would be better than talk-ph-org. talk-ph-localchapter is a little too long.

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: mailing list for openstreetmap philippines local chapter/organization

2010-07-03 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
That makes sense actually. All community-related discussion will be on openstreetmap.org while all OSM-PH Org discussions will be on openstreetmap.org.ph. Sounds good to me. What do other people think? On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner an...@enthropia.comwrote: Not that we

Re: [talk-ph] Mindanao Avenue to NLEX

2010-07-01 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The NLEX nortbound to Mindanao Avenue link has been added earlier tonight: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5119578 Great! Just 5 more link roads and the cloverleaf will be complete! :-) On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:51 PM, tutubi tut...@backpackingphilippines.comwrote: great. i just

Re: [talk-ph] what's up with Province of Dinagat Island?

2010-06-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
maning, don't mind the Inquirer news article headline. It's just Inquirer reporters being ignorant again. :-P Anyway, Shariff Kabunsuan and Dinagat Islands were provinces that were shot down by the Supreme Court. Dinagat Islands used to have a place=state node, but you, maning, deleted it

Re: [talk-ph] Want more aerial imagery? Why not do it yourself?

2010-06-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
cheap balloons and borrow a portable aluminum helium tank? On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: http://vimeo.com/12421661 ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [talk-ph] Waze: Real-time maps and traffic information based on the wisdom of the crowd

2010-06-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Waze has actually been discussed in various OSM places for quite a while now. Basically, OSM treats Waze the same way it treats Google Map Maker. The map created by Waze users is Waze's alone and becomes their proprietary property. Here's Waze's FAQ on why they didn't use OSM data:

[talk-ph] Want more aerial imagery? Why not do it yourself?

2010-06-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
http://vimeo.com/12421661 ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Upcoming OSM Server Maintenance

2010-06-25 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Server maintenance/upgrade next weekend guys. -- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com Date: Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:16 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] Upcoming OSM Server Maintenance To: Talk Openstreetmap t...@openstreetmap.org, annou...@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-ph] skillshare

2010-06-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
earlier so that we can reserve a table. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:10 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:01 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote

[talk-ph] Fwd: motorways leading to nowhere?

2010-06-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Forwarding this reply to the mailing list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jun Martin jun.mar...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:35 PM Subject: Re: [talk-ph] motorways leading to nowhere? To: Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com I think this road is named ROMAN HIGHWAY

Re: [talk-ph] motorways leading to nowhere?

2010-06-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I'm inclined to think that this is merely a trunk road. While it's not a requirement that the road is a tollway as opposed to a freeway to be a motorway, the fact that it's not limited access and has at-grade intersection suggests that it is not really a motorway. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:14

Re: [talk-ph] skillshare

2010-06-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:01 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: additional topic: cavite mapping party discussion I think the Cavite party would need a separate meeting in itself. I've bought two cavite maps (EZ and Accumap) and I have no idea how we are going to choose

Re: [talk-ph] skillshare

2010-06-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The problem is, I don't think everyone has high-speed internet at home. We could also try IRC. It's a low-bandwidth option. But only for mostly textual discussion. :-) On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner an...@enthropia.comwrote: we really need to learn how to discuss

Re: [talk-ph] tagging freindship route in Las pinas

2010-06-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I have no idea that's why I haven't tagged these routes yet even if I use them everyday. I guess I can add to his relation since modifying the tags is easy. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:31 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, A user added some for of friendship route is OSM.

Re: [talk-ph] OpenStreetMap Philippines Inc. a Non-Stock Corporation May 28, 2010

2010-06-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I think Caffecino also has free Wi-Fi. I just haven't updated the Ka-Fi directory yet. I also think that they have power outlets since they have a small function room. But they're expensive. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Bart Bartolome linuxbast...@paglalakbay.com wrote: Only Krispy Kreme

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: John Smith wrote: On 20 June 2010 17:07, Steve Bennettstevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Alex S.m...@swavely.com wrote: Some would like to see it kept and marked historical, but deleting ways

Re: [talk-ph] no uturn on a dual-carriageway, how?

2010-06-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
There should be one via: the bit of road connecting the to and from. So Lanuza should be split here. No need to add nodes as via. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:07 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: This spot:

Re: [talk-ph] no uturn on a dual-carriageway, how?

2010-06-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Maning, BTW, only_left_turn means just that: you can only turn left from the from road. Which means that you can't even go straight! So the two only_left_turn relations at the Lanuza-Ortigas intersection is wrong. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote

Re: [talk-ph] Ortigas Avenue ext, Cainta map errors

2010-06-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I think Rally can make sense of this since he probably passes by this area fairly frequently. :-) On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:27 PM, tutubi tut...@backpackingphilippines.comwrote: hi all, been testing routing in Cainta and noticed errors... Ortigas Avenue extension, from the foot of Rosario

[talk-ph] Wolfram|Alpha is using OSM data

2010-06-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, As mentioned on the main OSM mailing list, Wolfram|Alpha (that cool computational-not-search engine) uses OSM data for showing overview maps of places on earth. Here's Manila: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=manila(scroll down a bit to see the map). You can even choose various scale

Re: [talk-ph] OpenStreetMap Philippines Inc. a Non-Stock Corporation May 28, 2010

2010-06-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
That linked document on Google Docs is still in draft status and up for discussions. It was actually very much lifted almost word-for-word from the Wikimedia Foundation Requirements[1] and Guidelines[2] for future Local Chapters. The discussions seemed to have stalled. Based on the way things are

Re: [talk-ph] Help

2010-06-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Yeah, there's a missing link road between the flyover and the service road near the Holy Angels Montessori School. This is a known problem but I never did get around to fixing it. :-P I now added it: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4996779 Note that the link road is two-way. Those

Re: [talk-ph] OpenStreetMap Philippines Inc. a Non-Stock Corporation May 28, 2010

2010-06-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Can the board have a meeting before the month's end? We need to discuss post-incorporation tasks like getting a dry seal, opening a bank account, determining which assets go to OSM-PH Inc. (e.g., OSMtogo GPS units?), formulating/adopting a rules of order for meetings, registering with

Re: [talk-ph] Mindanao Avenue to NLEX

2010-06-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
four clover leafs can be done in one pass. jayzee From: Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com To: OSM-PH talk-ph@openstreetmap.org Sent: Sat, June 12, 2010 12:39:28 PM Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Mindanao Avenue to NLEX Hmmm. This cloverleaf

Re: [talk-ph] Mindanao Avenue to NLEX

2010-06-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
- a better trace uploaded June 13, 2010 - the NLEX-Mina Ave Link added in the map 20 minutes after the gps track was uploaded Great job pinoy-OSMers! On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm... how do we clean up all of those roads that criss-cross

Re: [talk-ph] Mindanao Avenue to NLEX

2010-06-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
is a planned major road connecting Caloocan, Novaliches, and the Batasan Complex. I guess the government still have the ROW for that planned road and that's what they used for the Mindanao Ave.-NLEX link road? On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: May naghahanap

Re: [talk-ph] Farmville

2010-06-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
This is called cognitive surplus by Clay Shirky.[1][2] He has estimated that the time spent to create all of Wikipedia (circa 2008) (including all of the behind-the-scene drama and in every language edition), which is about 100 million hours, is about the same amount of time Americans spend just

Re: [talk-ph] Mindanao Avenue to NLEX

2010-06-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hmmm. This cloverleaf and the link road is conspicuously missing. Though the under-construction cross-street is there at NLEX. http://osm.org/go/4zhUs9FV-- Even Google Map Maker doesn't have them. http://www.google.com/mapmaker?ll=14.691708,121.013675spn=0.020466,0.038881z=15 Since it just

Re: [talk-ph] is the text Province of necessary in the is_in:state tags?

2010-06-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I'm in favor of removing the Province of. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:54 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Most of the is_in:state tags have the value Province of in the name. For example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/198502660 gns_classification = ADM2 gns_uni

[talk-ph] SOTM 2010 OSM-PH poster

2010-06-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, It seems maning can't go to Spain for the OSM State of the Map conference and they can't give the slot to another Filipino so no one among us can attend. So an alternative is for us to just send them a State of the Philippines poster! See this:

[talk-ph] SM Supermalls website is using OSM!

2010-05-31 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Specifically, their mall locator[1] links to various pages for each mall and many malls' pages embed a map from openstreetmap.org.ph. Check out SM City Baguio[2] or SM Southmall[3]. How cool is that! :-D Now the trick is to map out all SM Supermalls so that all of their locator pages have OSM

Re: [talk-ph] Bacolod is still a big problem

2010-05-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:50 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Bacolod has good traces uploaded not much, but it seems to show very good coverage at least in the city center. See this image of JOSM: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3324/4623396303_e2f6be5fe6_o.jpg

Re: [talk-ph] Cavite Road Network Mapping Party

2010-05-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
at 8:25 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: As decided in the Ortigas-Mandaluyong Mapping Party and proposed in the OSM Wiki[1], the next Mapping Party will be to retrace all of the major roads connecting the cities and municipalities of Cavite. This email is for kicking off

Re: [talk-ph] Micro Mapping Party in Ortigas-Mandaluyong on May 22

2010-05-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: So final logistics needed: 1. Walking Papers printout of the slices - who can volunteer to do this? I can print this, just give me the pdf links. No time to navigate around walkingpapers site today

Re: [talk-ph] Micro Mapping Party in Ortigas-Mandaluyong on May 22

2010-05-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
these malls have free Wi-Fi. I would suggest is Starbucks Megastrip http://www.ka-fi.com/place/starbucks__megamall_megastrip/. Any other options? See you all on Saturday! On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: The link to Facebook is obviously wrong

Re: [talk-ph] Micro Mapping Party in Ortigas-Mandaluyong on May 22

2010-05-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I don't see why not. That's still part of the grand scheme to map the Philippines! :-) (But try to get the missing streets on your way there. :-P) On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:58 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: 2. The OSM Wiki announcement page (still under construction):

Re: [talk-ph] Micro Mapping Party in Ortigas-Mandaluyong on May 22

2010-05-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
? murlwe -Original Message- From: Eugene Alvin Villar [sea...@gmail.com] Sent: 5/18/2010 11:57:31 AM To: talk-ph@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Micro Mapping Party in Ortigas-Mandaluyong on May 22 The link to Facebook is obviously wrong. It should be: http://www.facebook.com

Re: [talk-ph] Micro Mapping Party in Ortigas-Mandaluyong on May 22

2010-05-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, at 10:22 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I really don't think we could push through with the Corregidor Mapping Party. Planning was mostly nonexistent and I don't think many people are willing to spend a large amount of money for the ferry trip and the possible

Re: [talk-ph] Micro Mapping Party in Ortigas-Mandaluyong on May 22

2010-05-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
-Mandaluyong_Mapping_Party#Cake_slices On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Here are two pages: 1. The Facebook event page (RSVP there if you have an account): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ortigas-Mandaluyong_Mapping_Party 2. The OSM Wiki announcement page (still

Re: [OSM-talk] Extra zoom level needed?

2010-05-17 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Speaking of not enough zoom levels, locations in the more northern and more southern latitudes actually have an extra zoom level. Because of the Mercartor projection, locations near 60 degree latitude (north or south) have twice the linear scale as locations on the equator for the same zoom level.

Re: [talk-ph] Bacolod is still a big problem

2010-05-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Craig, Good points overall. I agree that some of these copyright scaremongering isn't valid and that possibly in some jurisdictions (probably the US, but not the UK), copying facts from a map image is OK. But for everyone's information, OSM chooses to be on the safe and cautious side. Unless

[talk-ph] Micro Mapping Party in Ortigas-Mandaluyong on May 22

2010-05-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, I really don't think we could push through with the Corregidor Mapping Party. Planning was mostly nonexistent and I don't think many people are willing to spend a large amount of money for the ferry trip and the possible overnight stay in the hotel on Corregidor. Let's postpone that

[talk-ph] What happened to ideacampdavao.com?

2010-05-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
And also mapping.ideacampdavao.com? Somebody forgot to renew? Sayang naman. ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

[talk-ph] New one-ways in Bonifacio Global City starting on May 10

2010-05-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
http://www.thedailytribute.com/fort-bonifacio-global-city-and-miting-de-avance-traffic-advisory/ I'm sorely tempted to update OSM right now. Hehehe. ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

[talk-ph] Bacolod is still a big problem

2010-05-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I'm still seeing plenty of new editors and high editing activity in the Bacolod area. One example is this subdivision that was drawn in. The roads match the Google satellite imagery but there is no GPX trace to back it up:

Re: [talk-ph] Kumusta?

2010-04-22 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Craig, Welcome to OpenStreetMap! We certainly could use more people knowledgeable in GIS. The best place to start learning more is the OSM wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page We have an OSM member in Cebu City. He's Totor and he's on this mailing list. You can contact him at

Re: [talk-ph] tutorial on OSM for newbies

2010-04-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Sige, let's have a meet-up tutorial session. Potlatch, Merkaartor, and JOSM galore! :-) On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:04 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: This came up during the discussion last Marikina Mapping Party. Do we just meet every quarter for mapping events? There

Re: [talk-ph] SOTM 2010 scholarships

2010-04-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
My earlier nomination stands: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2010-March/001967.html I think Marloue's stands as well: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2010-March/001983.html :-) On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:29 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [talk-ph] are we becoming a victim of our own success?

2010-04-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I'm curious, what is that other mapping project? On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:12 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/maning/diary/10382 -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most

[talk-ph] Paete, Laguna is getting some love

2010-04-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Check it out: http://osm.org/go/4zg8W1PcK- (The absence of GPS tracks is a bit bothersome but Google and Bing doesn't have high-resolution imagery of this area so we can be sure that no copying from those sources occurred.) ___ talk-ph mailing list

[talk-ph] Need help in analyzing the changesets from a user

2010-04-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
This user http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/du1nij has edited many roads in Metro Manila. These two changesets are quite problematic: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4410576 (update taguig and tondo) http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4421045 (aligned road) He has no

Re: [talk-ph] Need help in analyzing the changesets from a user

2010-04-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: This user http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/du1nij has edited many roads in Metro Manila. These two changesets are quite problematic: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4410576 (update taguig and tondo

Re: [talk-ph] Commonwealth now connects to Quirino Highway?

2010-04-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
activities. Anthony On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 17:12 +0800, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Hi guys, In Google Map Maker, Commonwealth Avenue has been extended to connect directly to Quirino Highway. http://www.google.com/mapmaker?ll=14.727572,121.046848spn=0.020836,0.0739z=14

Re: [talk-ph] Commonwealth now connects to Quirino Highway?

2010-04-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: So should we draw it and mark it as highway=construction? On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Anthony G. Balico anthony.bal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Maning, No, not at all passable. Anthony On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 21

[talk-ph] Commonwealth now connects to Quirino Highway?

2010-04-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, In Google Map Maker, Commonwealth Avenue has been extended to connect directly to Quirino Highway. http://www.google.com/mapmaker?ll=14.727572,121.046848spn=0.020836,0.0739z=14 Can anybody confirm that this is so? That's possibly a major road that's not yet in OSM. :-) Eugene

Re: [talk-ph] road conversion from primary to trunk

2010-04-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
doing this for my area, but I need clear benefits before doing this. Does this provide better routing? On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Sunday

Re: [talk-ph] What denomination tag do we use for Catholic churches?

2010-04-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hmmm, based on the OSM wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:denomination : religion=christian, *denomination*=catholic (use *denomination* =roman_catholic and *denomination*=old_catholic if known) So what's the consensus? On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:41 PM, eric pareja eric.par...@gmail.com

Re: [talk-ph] road conversion from primary to trunk

2010-04-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I personally think that trunk roads are generally long-distance roads meant to drive traffic across a metropolis or across the countryside. While traffic volume is a very good indicator, it's not always guaranteed. That said, I was actually thinking of upgrading Espana-Quezon Avenue to trunk.

Re: [talk-ph] road conversion from primary to trunk

2010-04-11 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Sunday, 11 April, 2010 09:55 PM: That said, I was actually thinking of upgrading Espana-Quezon Avenue to trunk. :-) What do other people think? My 2 centavos: Trunk roads are inter-city

[talk-ph] Planning the Corregidor Mapping Party (was Re: Araw ng Kagitingan mapping suggestion)

2010-04-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, After the successful Marikina Mapping Party, let's now plan our summer Mapping Party in Corregidor! The wiki announcement page is here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Corregidor_Mapping_Party And the planning page is here:

[talk-ph] What denomination tag do we use for Catholic churches?

2010-04-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I've seen both denomination=catholic denomination=roman_catholic ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

Re: [talk-ph] Bacolod Being Vandalized by Large Dinosaur?

2010-04-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner an...@enthropia.comwrote: Also is Mr. Bacolod City http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/BacolodCity/edits and his super huge track real? http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/BacolodCity/traces/653604 Didn't we just have an issue with Bacolod

Re: [talk-ph] RFC: Planned Arivac Bohol Data Import

2010-03-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Well, because of Potlatch's 'R' key, many of Arivac's IDs are no longer correct. :-P On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Totor totor_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Great job Maning, and thanks to Arivac for the data. Some users are even more exited than you Maning: Doy_nick is already racing to

[talk-ph] Maning's daily updates of osmphil_garmin maps gets us contributors!

2010-03-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Maning had a hunch that we are getting more contributions to OSM ever since he started the daily Garmin map updates. Well, I found the proof that this is so: http://tsikot.yehey.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1427010postcount=59 I started contributing to osm ph last week. Natuwa ako kasi

[talk-ph] Post-Marikina Mapping Party Report

2010-03-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, I finally got around to blogging about the Marikina Mapping Party from my point of view: http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/osm_marikina_party_post_report Well done guys! Eugene (osm:seav) -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com ___ talk-ph

[talk-ph] Bacolod City again

2010-03-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Bacolod City is getting a lot of attention again recently: http://osm.org/go/4n8s_J4S- What worries me is that there are four new accounts just editing in that area: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/BacolodCity/edits (8-day-old account) http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/hithere/edits

Re: [talk-ph] Bacolod City again

2010-03-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On second though, the GPX track is too artificial. I have to investigate some more. On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: Hi guys, Bacolod City is getting a lot of attention again recently: http://osm.org/go/4n8s_J4S- What worries me

Re: [talk-ph] Anyone doing turn restriction relations?

2010-03-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I've added a couple of turn restrictions myself. Bythe way, here's a nice site to visualize and check turn restrictions: http://osm.virtuelle-loipe.de/restrictions/ Zoom in to an intersection and see which restrictions are in effect. On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:08 PM, maning sambale

Re: [talk-ph] Anyone doing turn restriction relations?

2010-03-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
For example, here's all the turn restriction in Metro Manila so far, only 11: http://osm.virtuelle-loipe.de/restrictions/?zoom=12lat=14.57853lon=121.00659layers=B00TT On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: I've added a couple of turn restrictions myself

[talk-ph] Kalayaan Group of Islands boundary

2010-03-16 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Ian has started adding the US-Spain-UK border treaty limits around the Sabah-Spratly Islands area: http://osm.org/go/4lauR Do you think this would invite edit wars from other OSMers in countries that also claim some or all of the Spratlys? In addition (warning: geeky), the border treaty limits

Re: [talk-ph] advise on tagging barangay health centers

2010-03-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
How about amenity=clinic? On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:26 PM, eric pareja eric.par...@gmail.com wrote: hi ian, maning, tagging health centers as public building or doctor's clinic would probably be correct in keeping with generic tagging, but it would be more useful if they are tagged

Re: [talk-ph] Announcing: OSM-PH Marikina Mapping Party

2010-03-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I like the German flyer. I can probably create something like it but who will print it? On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner an...@enthropia.comwrote: Should we create an Philippine version of the OSM Info Flyers here: http://www.openstreetmap.de/img/flyer-big.jpg and

Re: [talk-ph] Announcing: OSM-PH Marikina Mapping Party

2010-03-13 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
pamphlet to give newbies a rough introduction to OpenStreetMap and the scheduled activities for the day cheers, maning On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: One problem we'll have is where in SM City Marikina do we plan to hold the editing sessions

[talk-ph] Bookmarklet to quickly view a changeset in the OSM History Viewer

2010-03-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Lately, I've found the OSM History Viewer[1] (Wiki) to be a really useful tool for checking changesets created by other users. But it's quite a hassle opening a new tab to load the service then copy-pasting the changeset ID. So I created a bookmarklet such that whenever I am on a

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