Just a request to the would be Bounty Mapper in Boracay: Please make a brief write-up on how you did it. This would be a good case study for other orgs/company wanting specific areas included in OSM.
Good luck and enjoy! On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Mike Collinson <m...@ayeltd.biz> wrote: > At 02:18 PM 19/02/2009, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: >>I'll do some research to get a rough estimate on how long it will likely take >>to map the whole of Boracay so we'll know what travel package to get (3D 2N? >>or 4D 3N?). I remember it taking me about an hour to walk the whole stretch >>of White Beach so it will probably take a whole day just to map out the White >>Beach properties. > > It took me 2 1/2 energetic days to collect the data for the original OSM > Boracay map - which I think is still pretty much everything you see bar some > new side roads and tracks. Exclusively on foot with two motorbike taxi > rides. That included location and digital photo of every hotel, main tourist > points (ferry, Mount Luho, Bat Cave ...), most restaurants and most > tourist-oriented shops. I'd add another day if you need to go into the > hotels to get contact info. Or you can cut some time off by hiring a bicycle > - I believe there was a place in the D'Mall area, I'll check and add it if I > have time. > > FYI, I've contributed the hotel locations and tourist points already; the > rest was for a potentially-commercial project but I may release it later. > > Mike > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
