[talk-ph] How do I download the map?

2011-02-08 Thread Frank Woolf
I just went to Open Street Map Philippines to download the Philippine map and update my GPS but I cannot find the download page. I know I am getting old and dumb but spent 30 minutes getting nowhere. Can somebody please advise? Thanks ___ talk-ph

[talk-ph] ondoy/bing changed river courses

2011-02-08 Thread maning sambale
Hi, I noticed that some river courses have changed recently around Marikina and San Mateo based on Bing images. I suspect its either due to Ondoy or simply Bing's recent imagery (compared to yahoo!). Image date range around this area is October 2009 - Feb 2010. I suggest you guys revisit your

[talk-ph] calamba-sta cruz famy junction road?

2011-02-08 Thread tutubi
this always bugs me whenever i pass by calamba going home from calamba crossing, the road's tagged as calamba-sta cruz famy junction road (famy is quite far away) if you ask locals and see addresses printed on business establishments signages, it just says national highway...even locals in Paete

Re: [talk-ph] calamba-sta cruz famy junction road?

2011-02-08 Thread ianlopez
I am primarily responsible for renaming a stretch of road between Calamba and Pila as the Calamba - Santa Cruz - Famy Junction Road. I based it on online documents from the Department of Budget and Management and/or the Department of Public Works and Highways[1]. I support the motion that the

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-08 Thread maning sambale
Use this map to browse for hi-res bing imagery. Once an area was viewed at zoom 14 or higher the updated coverage overlay will be visible even at lower zooms. So far, I triggered several renders in Mindanao:

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
Hi everyone, If you just want to meet up and talk about maps, mapping, and GPS devices, then you can skip the morning field survey and join us in the afternoon meet-up. And if you can't come due to prior commitments but would like to help out, then mapping the area from Bing and Yahoo in advance

Re: [talk-ph] mapquest now with global routing

2011-02-08 Thread Axel Kollmorgen
On 2011-02-07 12:30, maning sambale wrote: I don't know if this was posted before, but mapquest now has global routing enabled. http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?articleid=919733 A test here Marikina to Cebu: http://open.mapquest.com/link/9-D3nY6m7C very nice: the first

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

2011-02-08 Thread tutubi
sounds like trunk hunting to me :P trunks are visible at a certain zoom level on my nuvi and mapsource... zooming in will reveal the primaries. there are others out there should be upgraded to be visible to get the idea of general route to take btw, i'm browsing my off-line map and noticed

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

2011-02-08 Thread Ed Garcia
It seems like most, if not all, would agree to the following guidelines: -- trunk roads would be the town-to-town roads that crosses provincial boundaries. - should also make all roads directly linking town to town as primary highways what think guys? On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:53 AM, tutubi

[talk-ph] Philippines Territorial Border

2011-02-08 Thread Ian Haylock
Hi, I've just updated the Territorial border for the Philippines. I used the map available here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ph_Territorial_Map.png I don't know how to make this png a background in JOSM, so I just did a best guess for the points. Hopefully I haven't messed up the

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

2011-02-08 Thread maning sambale
FYI, I believe I removed all instance of Province of in the is_in:state tag. The db should be a bit smaller now. Since the major source of the data came from GNS, a few observations I noticed: - there is state/province labeled Kalinga-Apayao. This should be either Kalinga or Apayao only. I