Re: [talk-ph] Forest landcover

2016-02-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I agree. I actually admire the detailed landcover areas found in many places in Europe in OSM and I can't see how such a level of detail would be problematic here in the Philippines. As for the saw-tooth coastlines, I'm actually surprised they still exist to a large degree since we did a

Re: [talk-ph] Forest landcover

2016-02-04 Thread Leonard Soriano
Hi, I think it is OK to extend the tree cover areas if the basis of mapping is the present forest land cover. The mapped areas would be actually close to what is existing on the ground. On a related note. I just observed that some mapped ares of existing land use = forest, were based on

Re: [talk-ph] Forest landcover

2016-02-03 Thread Ronny Ager-Wick
I'm not an authority on this, but I can't see a reason why not. The current lines are unlikely to be accurate the way you describe them and matches what I've seen elsewhere in the Philippines. Ronny. On 2016-02-02 18:17, David Groom wrote: > Hi > > Firstly let me introduce myself, I'm based in

[talk-ph] Forest landcover

2016-02-02 Thread David Groom
Hi Firstly let me introduce myself, I'm based in the UK. I've been involed with OSM pretty much from the start, (I attended the first ever mapping party), was responsible for a large part of the original worldwide coastline import, spent a lot of time fixing coastline errors, did most of