Re: [talk-ph] Provincial relations ( no not your far away relatives :-) )

2011-03-27 Thread maning sambale
Unless we have very good reference, using rivers as boundaries is not always a good choice. The post-ondoy imagery from Bing shows that a lot of river tributaries have changed already: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/maning/diary/13191 On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrot

Re: [talk-ph] Provincial relations ( no not your far away relatives :-) )

2011-03-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Ian, On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Ian Haylock wrote: >> 4. When you moved the QC-Rizal boundary to Marikina River >> (which I'm >> not sure is really correct) > > Well it seemed more logical, as lots of the boundaries seem to follow rivers > and streams. While it seems logical, it's not

Re: [talk-ph] Provincial relations ( no not your far away relatives :-) )

2011-03-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Most of the maps in Wikipedia were modeled after the boundaries available in mapcentral.ph if the provincial websites didn't have them available. While creating these mapcentral derived maps in Wikipedia seems OK under the US copyright law (since only the uncopyrightable 'facts' were copied), they

Re: [talk-ph] Provincial relations ( no not your far away relatives :-) )

2011-03-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
A follow-up. Where did you get the Cagayan boundaries? The relation you added for Claveria and Santa Praxedes are wrong since the town center of Claveria has

Re: [talk-ph] Provincial relations ( no not your far away relatives :-) )

2011-03-27 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Ian, Well, I've been monitoring your edits and have fixed most of the errors though not the omissions. :-) Some notable errors that I fixed: 1. Batanes is not part of Cagayan. I've removed Batanes from the Cagayan relation but I didn't create the Batanes relation. 2. Siquijor is not part of Ce

[talk-ph] Provincial relations ( no not your far away relatives :-) )

2011-03-27 Thread Ian Haylock
Hi, Just finished creating relations for all the provinces. To answer Mannings email. Well done you found one of my deliberate mistakes :-) Actually I have no real idea which islands belong to which provinces. Feel free to move them from one relation to another. Sulu, and Palawan Provinces pr