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

2011-02-09 Thread Axel Kollmorgen
On 2011-02-09 15:40, maning sambale wrote: I believe I removed all instance of Province of in the is_in:state tag. The db should be a bit smaller now. there are some remaining (palawan, cagayan, quezon, ...). removing them now (including 'is_in:country' and 'is_in:country_code'):

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

2011-02-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
This seems sensible. I agree with this proposal and I think Rally also has the same thoughts regarding trunk highways. On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Ed Garcia eppgar...@gmail.com wrote: It seems like most, if not all, would agree to the following guidelines: -- trunk roads would be the

Re: [talk-ph] Philippines Territorial Border

2011-02-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I wonder if we'll have an edit war with neighboring countries over the Spratlys. :-P On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Ian Haylock hayloc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've just updated the Territorial border for the Philippines. I used the map available here :

Re: [talk-ph] Philippines Territorial Border

2011-02-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
The borders are actually based on a treaty defined by the United States when they bought the Philippine islands and are specified by coordinates. You can learn more from here: http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj/articles/APLPJ_10.1_bautista.pdf The problem is that those coordinates are not in WGS84 and

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

2011-02-09 Thread maning sambale
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Axel Kollmorgen akollmor...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-02-09 15:40, maning sambale wrote: I believe I removed all instance of Province of in the is_in:state tag. The db should be a bit smaller now. Let me correct myself: I believe I removed all instance of

Re: [talk-ph] Philippines Territorial Border

2011-02-09 Thread Ian Haylock
Hi, Woah! 31 pages, I'm not that interested :-) Anyway feel free to edit the border, and remove the Spratley's if you wish. I had thought Wikipedia would have nice maps of all the countries borders, and lists of the co-ordinates, yet here we are in the 21st Century and people are still fighting

[talk-ph] GPS co-ordinates on Vcard

2011-02-09 Thread Jim Morgan
Just a random thought ... It struck me that a very useful application for restaurants, bars etc, would be to put their Lat/Long co-ordinates on a webpage, in a format that would allow them to be imported into people's GPS units. In the same way as Vcard allows you to do with addresses. Any

Re: [talk-ph] GPS co-ordinates on Vcard

2011-02-09 Thread maning sambale
There is a spec for attaching location in html: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_URI see also: http://geourl.org/ vcard has also added the GEO spec: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-vcarddav-vcardrev-11#section-6.5.2 There is also a firefox extension that can read the geolocation in html.

[talk-ph] overlapping bing imagery

2011-02-09 Thread maning sambale
Is there a way to un-pack overlapping bing imagery? See example of SCTEX here: http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=10.401683281039183lon=123.99914076328338zoom=18 The more recent image is under an older data. There is probably a significant overlap underneath such as