[talk-ph] City Database

2010-01-26 Thread Jing Iya
Hello All, Since you are discussing how to improve the road tagging in OSM Phil., Id like to ask too, how can we improve the City/Municipality database specially the one we are using in Garmin GPS. If you will notice, the city or municipality database is quite confusing and should I say "dirty"

Re: [talk-ph] City Database

2010-01-26 Thread maning sambale
Glad someone will take on the challenge! For a brief history, all cities/towns were initially imported from the GNS data 2 years ago. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Data_import The location is not very accurate. What is needed is to locate the node ideally on the muni

Re: [talk-ph] changes of raod types

2010-01-26 Thread Jim Morgan
Just found a bit of time to give my thoughts on this Road Types thread. A lot has been discussed, so I'll just give a few of my thoughts on the matter without directly referencing the posts. - Yes, roads in the Philippines are not like roads elsewhere! And as such they don't neatly fit into t

Re: [talk-ph] changes of raod types

2010-01-26 Thread maning sambale
> If we elevate some of the dirt tracks to the level of tertiary, for example, > then they will actually show up on the zoomed out map. You can always do highway=tertiary tracktype=grade1 >  - By far the most important thing is to get the roads on the map. So if > you're hesitating whether to p

Re: [talk-ph] City Database

2010-01-26 Thread Jing Iya
Thanks Maning, Yes, the lot address is something we cannot do unfortunately. I will start studying the city database, hope I can do something about it. For the time being, I will concentrate on the City/Municipality since it is more important than the Barangay. Jing __