Re: [talk-ph] RA 10067 "Tubbataha Reefs National Park (TRNP) Act of 2009" has coordinates of the park's boundaries

2010-12-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hehehe. It was actually the geographical errors on the new banknote designs the reason why I stumbled onto RA 10067. On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:58 AM, tutubi wrote: > you should see the new P1000 bill...there's a map there and points to the > reef as located near malaysia :( > > shame...shame on

Re: [talk-ph] RA 10067 "Tubbataha Reefs National Park (TRNP) Act of 2009" has coordinates of the park's boundaries

2010-12-19 Thread tutubi
you should see the new P1000 bill...there's a map there and points to the reef as located near malaysia :( shame...shame on geographically-challenged people in government -- --- I explore, therefore I blog. http://www.backpackingphilippines.com On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Eugene Alvin Vi

Re: [talk-ph] RA 10067 "Tubbataha Reefs National Park (TRNP) Act of 2009" has coordinates of the park's boundaries

2010-12-19 Thread Ed Garcia
I have friend who worked on the PRS92 project several years ago. According to him, there is very little difference between Luzon Datium and PRS92 datum. For our intents and purposes on OSM and waypointsdotph, the difference would be negligible. What I did then to convert data that is coming in a

Re: [talk-ph] RA 10067 "Tubbataha Reefs National Park (TRNP) Act of 2009" has coordinates of the park's boundaries

2010-12-19 Thread Rally de Leon
The data (corner-points) given in said Republic Act were in Lat-Long format. My converter is insisting that I specify PRS92 in Northing & Easting values (as well as which Philippine-Zone). How were you able to convert prs92 (Lat Long) to WGS84? On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 7:13 PM, maning sambale wr

Re: [talk-ph] RA 10067 "Tubbataha Reefs National Park (TRNP) Act of 2009" has coordinates of the park's boundaries

2010-12-19 Thread maning sambale
The main reef area is there: http://osm.org/go/4n...@q-- It is unrendered in the main mapnik layer, click the "Data" in the overlays to view the data. The main reef was tagged as subsea = coral_reef, as March 2009, there wasn't any agreed tag for subsea areas. Any suggestion to update the tag an

[talk-ph] RA 10067 "Tubbataha Reefs National Park (TRNP) Act of 2009" has coordinates of the park's boundaries

2010-12-18 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Here's a PDF link of the scanned copy of the law from the Senate website: http://www.senate.gov.ph/republic_acts/ra%2010067.pdf It contains coordinates of the park's boundaries in PRS92 datum: Pt 1 9°04'52" 119°46'10" Pt 2 9°06'05" 119°48'22" Pt 3 8°58'09" 120°03'12" Pt 4 8°53'29" 120°03'