Re: [talk-ph] request for flickr map to use OSM in Manila and Davao

2009-08-01 Thread Mike Collinson
Excellent. The guy who put together the code that flips from Yahoo map tiles to OSM ones for certain parts of the world gave a talk at SOTM 2009. They host the tiles themselves and do not update them often. Since Flickr is partly or wholly owned by Yahoo, he admitted that they were not exactly

Re: [talk-ph] request for flickr map to use OSM in Manila and Davao

2009-07-29 Thread maning sambale
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > Hmmm... aren't you using the satellite imagery to geocode? Doh! Oo nga no! Anyway, just got a message from flickr devs that they are downloading the tiles and will be available by next week pending the "usual craziness". I suggested Ma

Re: [talk-ph] request for flickr map to use OSM in Manila and Davao

2009-07-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hmmm... aren't you using the satellite imagery to geocode? On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:38 AM, maning sambale wrote: > Hi, > > I use flickr.com all the time (maybe I should get a pro account). > They have this cool feature to geocode pix within yahoomaps. But the > yahoo! streetmap is not very go

Re: [talk-ph] request for flickr map to use OSM in Manila and Davao

2009-07-28 Thread George Tujan
nice! can't wait :) On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:38 AM, maning sambale wrote: > Hi, > > I use flickr.com all the time (maybe I should get a pro account). > They have this cool feature to geocode pix within yahoomaps.  But the > yahoo! streetmap is not very good here. > > So I sent a message to flick

[talk-ph] request for flickr map to use OSM in Manila and Davao

2009-07-28 Thread maning sambale
Hi, I use flickr.com all the time (maybe I should get a pro account). They have this cool feature to geocode pix within yahoomaps. But the yahoo! streetmap is not very good here. So I sent a message to flickr's senior engineer (summary below, orig message was more polite): "Yahoo! streetmap not