[OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

Hi, Metro Manila in the Philippines is getting more and more updated every week in OSM. After more than 1.5 years of contributing, we have made the Metropolis expand coverage from this [1] to this [2]. ~ 50 contributors have added pois, roads, etc. using mostly Yahoo! imagery and very few contri

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

maning sambale wrote: > [...] > 3. add a "fixme" tag. > Isn't that what the highway=road tag is for? I'll warn that sometimes the usage of Yahoo imagery can slow down later editing. Shaun ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.op

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

On 14 Jul 2008, at 16:32, Shaun McDonald wrote: > maning sambale wrote: >> [...] >> 3. add a "fixme" tag. >> > Isn't that what the highway=road tag is for? > > I'll warn that sometimes the usage of Yahoo imagery can slow down > later > editing. Shaun, do the no-name tile sets highlight name=FI

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:54 PM, John McKerrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shaun, do the no-name tile sets highlight name=FIXME as well as empty/ > missing 'name' tags? No. And there's many other variations on the putting-garbage-in-the-name-tag :-) > Also are those tiles available globally/ou

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

John McKerrell wrote: > On 14 Jul 2008, at 16:32, Shaun McDonald wrote: > > >> maning sambale wrote: >> >>> [...] >>> 3. add a "fixme" tag. >>> >>> >> Isn't that what the highway=road tag is for? >> >> I'll warn that sometimes the usage of Yahoo imagery can slow down >> later >> ed

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

>>> Isn't that what the highway=road tag is for? Yes or this tag. >>> I'll warn that sometimes the usage of Yahoo imagery can slow down later >>> editing. It can be but Yahoo is currently our best option for now. Any specific instance on problems with yahoo you can illustrate so we can avoid them

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

maning sambale wrote: Isn't that what the highway=road tag is for? > Yes or this tag. > > I'll warn that sometimes the usage of Yahoo imagery can slow down later editing. > It can be but Yahoo is currently our best option for now. > Any specific instan

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

> > >>I have started this section on this page: > >> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery#Problems_with_tracing_Yahoo > >>Many of the suggestions require ground knowledge. Reading the section pointed to above, it states "Roads are unnamed, so the highway=road tag shoul

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

Philip Shipley wrote: > > > > >>I have started this section on this page: > > >>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery#Problems_with_tracing_Yahoo > > > >>Many of

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

On 15 Jul 2008, at 02:15, maning sambale wrote: >> The Cloudmade nonames tiles are available world wide now. (You need >> to >> specifically select the correct layer, if the correct layer param >> isn't >> in the url). > > This is cool! Might be better to integrate with openstreetbugs so

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

On 16 Jul 2008, at 10:03, John McKerrell wrote: > On 15 Jul 2008, at 02:15, maning sambale wrote: > > >>> The Cloudmade nonames tiles are available world wide now. (You need >>> to >>> specifically select the correct layer, if the correct layer param >>> isn't >>> in the url). >> >> This is co

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

John McKerrell wrote: > [..] > I realised the fact that I missed the edit link so much is because my > own map page that I normally use has one, so I've now added the "no > names" layer to it: > > http://johnmckerrell.com/map/ > > Select "Mapnik" then click on the little arrow and select > "H

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:03 AM, John McKerrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 15 Jul 2008, at 02:15, maning sambale wrote: > > >>> The Cloudmade nonames tiles are available world wide now. (You need >>> to >>> specifically select the correct layer, if the correct layer param >>> isn't >>>

[OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love Part 2

Hi, Just got the news today from an OSM mapper that Metro Manila Philippines is now in Google Mapmaker See this: http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=10&ll=14.555339,121.05835&spn=0.295086,0.31826&z=12 I have to admit that it is impressive in many parts (but not as detailed as where I am currently

Re: [OSM-talk] Metro Manila Philippines needs some OSM love Part 2

Hi, A number of people have responded to our OSM love appeal. Thank you for your contributions! As result were expanding our coverage in the "noname" layer :) http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.589&lon=121.0679&zoom=12&layers=000BFTF You can continue remote editing with Yahoo! cheers, maning