Re: [talk-ph] ideas on importing deped schools db to OSM

2013-04-24 Thread maning sambale
> It might be better to divide the data also along geographical lines. For > example, by provinces and then divide the data per province into smaller > chunks like Ilocose Norte 1, Ilocos Norte 2, etc. > > I think chunks of 100 is much more manageable. I certainly don't think I can > process 500 sc

Re: [talk-ph] Land area of the Philippines

2013-04-24 Thread Jim Morgan
tutubi wrote, On Thursday, 25 April, 2013 09:58 AM: > land area may vary, depends whether it was measured during high tide or low > tide too I was about to make the same joke! But then I did a quick back-of-an-envelope calculation and found out it wouldn't actually make that much difference: Le

Re: [talk-ph] Land area of the Philippines

2013-04-24 Thread Noli Sicad
> Parang tanong lang sa Miss Universe ah :) Approximately. blah blah :-) Noli ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

Re: [talk-ph] Land area of the Philippines

2013-04-24 Thread maning sambale
Unless they tell you the scale, don't trust the numbers. Its a fractal problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:09 AM, rem zamora wrote: > Parang tanong lang sa Miss Universe ah :) > > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:58 AM, tutubi > wrote: >> >> Eugene, >>

Re: [talk-ph] Land area of the Philippines

2013-04-24 Thread rem zamora
Parang tanong lang sa Miss Universe ah :) On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:58 AM, tutubi wrote: > Eugene, > > land area may vary, depends whether it was measured during high tide or > low tide too > > :) > > > --- > I explore, therefore I blog! > > http://www.backpackingphilippines.com > > http://www.f

Re: [talk-ph] ideas on importing deped schools db to OSM

2013-04-24 Thread lrazafindrazay
Yes, the School_ID is official ID. On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:49 AM, "Eugene Alvin Villar" wrote: > We should not import the data straight out. I've checked some of the data and > some of them are located on the road in front of the school and not on the > school itself. > > Also, I think we can

Re: [talk-ph] Land area of the Philippines

2013-04-24 Thread tutubi
Eugene, land area may vary, depends whether it was measured during high tide or low tide too :) --- I explore, therefore I blog! http://www.backpackingphilippines.com http://www.facebook.com/backpackingPhilippines http://www.twitter.com/backpackPH On Apr 25, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Eugene Alvin

[talk-ph] Land area of the Philippines

2013-04-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I think most of you already know that the Philippines is supposed to have a land area of 300,000 kmĀ². This is what is stored in the United Nations: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2009-2010/Table03.pdf However, the National Statistical Coordination Board says its 343,448.32

Re: [talk-ph] ideas on importing deped schools db to OSM

2013-04-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello, On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:52 PM, maning sambale wrote: > Dear Eugene, > > Thank you for looking at the data. > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar > wrote: > > We should not import the data straight out. I've checked some of the data > > and some of them are located on

[talk-ph] OpenStreetBugs-like functionality is now on the main OSM website!

2013-04-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi guys, Some of you may know about OpenStreetBugs: http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/?lat=14.6&lon=121.05&zoom=14 It's a 3rd-party website where people can easily submit bug reports on the map. For example: "this building no longer exists". For mappers, it's also a quick way of placing notes

Re: [talk-ph] ideas on importing deped schools db to OSM

2013-04-24 Thread maning sambale
Dear Eugene, Thank you for looking at the data. On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > We should not import the data straight out. I've checked some of the data > and some of them are located on the road in front of the school and not on > the school itself. > > Also, I th

[talk-ph] Fwd: [HOT] Senior Field Coordinator Open Cities Initiative in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

2013-04-24 Thread maning sambale
HOT job and opportunity to travel to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kate Chapman Date: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:10 PM Subject: [HOT] Senior Field Coordinator Open Cities Initiative in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka To: hot Hi All, We have a new contract posit