Re: [talk-ph] Broadening coverage.

2009-01-14 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/15 Ed Garcia > I was about to post the message below when I was pleasantly surprised to > discover that this has been addressed now and the enhancement is already on > the main map web page of OSM... > > >>> Gathering all discussions regarding resorts and how to locate them, > one thing wo

Re: [talk-ph] Broadening coverage.

2009-01-14 Thread Ed Garcia
I was about to post the message below when I was pleasantly surprised to discover that this has been addressed now and the enhancement is already on the main map web page of OSM... >>> Gathering all discussions regarding resorts and how to locate them, one thing would be really "nice to have" on t

Re: [talk-ph] natural=peak GNS upload complete

2009-01-14 Thread maning sambale
Thanks again Mike! It's in osmarender already: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.6908&lon=121.2283&zoom=14&layers=0B00FTF I'm thinking of ways to properly move the points to the approximate location, here's the plan (warning GIS terms below): Using the SRTM DEM, calculate morphometric feature

Re: [talk-ph] Broadening coverage.

2009-01-14 Thread maning sambale
> > tourism=hotel > name=The Nice Hotel > is_in:country=Philippines > is_in:state=Xxx Province > is_in:island=Panglao > is_in:beach=Alona Beach Excellent example! I think I've this area a bit. I agree we add this info to the POIs. -- cheers, maning --

Re: [talk-ph] Broadening coverage.

2009-01-14 Thread Mike Collinson
Excellent! The ability to use OSM data as a national search and location resource for overseas tourism promotion provides a serious demonstration of the value of what we are doing. I've mapped in each and every Boracay hotel and just used tourism=hotel but any other information, even if you in

[talk-ph] natural=peak GNS upload complete

2009-01-14 Thread Mike Collinson
Hi Maning and list, As requested, I've uploaded full set of Philippine mountain and hill names found in the US government's GNS dataset. You should start to see these appearing in the Osmarender map view and in Mapnik next week. I've also uploaded names of mountain ranges as place=mountain_ran

Re: [talk-ph] Broadening coverage.

2009-01-14 Thread Ed Garcia
Regarding resorts listed at waypointsdotph ... no problem ... I will have those resorts that have coordinates added to OSM. Btw, what tag will we use for resorts? will we simply use Hotel? As to contact numbers. You can use the ones listed on the website. I can give Maning the list. Though I

Re: [talk-ph] Broadening coverage.

2009-01-14 Thread maning sambale
Great idea! Feel free to improve this for the Philippine setting: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Weekend_mapping_projects/Form_letters Some tips in writing press releases: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Writing_a_press_release > It occured to me as I was browsing some of the resorts

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Philippines meet-up

2009-01-14 Thread Jim Morgan
Yeah, I'm on for a meet up, particularly if beer is involved! Early Feb would be prefered, as I'm going to be out of town for the last week of Jan. Jim maning sambale wrote, On Monday, January 12, 2009 11:44 AM: > Hi, > > Can we have a meet-up this month (January)? Just an informal > gatherin

Re: [talk-ph] OSM Philippines meet-up

2009-01-14 Thread Jim Morgan
Yeah, I'm on for a meet up, particularly if beer is involved! Early Feb would be prefered, as I'm going to be out of town for the last week of Jan. Jim maning sambale wrote, On Monday, January 12, 2009 11:44 AM: > Hi, > > Can we have a meet-up this month (January)? Just an informal > gatherin

[talk-ph] Broadening coverage.

2009-01-14 Thread Jim Morgan
Hi, I was just looking for somewhere for some visiting friends to stay when they arrive from Hong Kong during Chinese New Year. I was looking for somewhere in Zambales, and of course while I was looking I had a copy of OSM open. It occured to me as I was browsing some of the resorts, that this