jing, What specific attributes of the GADM database do we specifically need in order to improve the city routing or search?
> "This dataset is freely available for academic and other non-commercial use. > Redistribution, or commercial use, is not allowed without prior permission." > > I do not know what is their interpretation of the OSM effort, but I am sure > OSM is non-commercial, OSM can be commercial >however, once we load the GADM database into OSM, we > are technically redistributing it. But then it says "without prior > permission". > I think Maning can ask permission from GADM? I can do that if it merits any improvement with OSM's PH data. However, I am reluctant to do the import at the moment. Anyone can do it if we are allowed to do so. > ________________________________ > From: Jing Iya <jing_...@yahoo.com> > To: talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 14:20:05 > Subject: Re: [talk-ph] City Database > > Thanks Maning, > > Yes, the lot address is something we cannot do unfortunately. I will start > studying the city database, hope I can do something about it. > > For the time being, I will concentrate on the City/Municipality since it is > more important than the Barangay. > > Jing > > > ________________________________ > From: maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> > To: osm-ph <talk-ph@openstreetmap.org> > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 11:59:58 > Subject: Re: [talk-ph] City Database > > Glad someone will take on the challenge! > > For a brief history, all cities/towns were initially imported from the > GNS data 2 years ago. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Data_import > > The location is not very accurate. What is needed is to locate the > node ideally on the municipal hall or within the city center or > poblacion. You can easily do this even with landsat overlay. I > believe user:axk did this for some islands in Visayas. > > We use the place tag to denote location: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place > > We adopted the following practice for PH: > place=city "for cities" > place=town "for towns/municipalities" > place=village ANDplace:ph=barangay "for barangay" > place=hamlet "for villages and subdivisions" > > Please search the talk-ph list archives for similar discussions as well. > > There's also a rule for mapping admin boundaries: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Mapping_conventions#Administrative_boundaries > > This will hopefully improve location search, however, the current > admin boundaries are incomplete even at the city/municipality level. > > As for adding city/municipality for each POI we use the Karlsruhe Schema: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Address > > Please also note that we have a lot address problems in the country. > See this address variations: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Philippine_addressing#Addressing_variations > > Hope that helps. Good luck! > Good luck! > > > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Jing Iya <jing_...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> Since you are discussing how to improve the road tagging in OSM Phil., Id >> like to ask too, how can we improve the City/Municipality database >> specially >> the one we are using in Garmin GPS. If you will notice, the city or >> municipality database is quite confusing and should I say "dirty". >> >> I am willing to give my time and help clean this up if I would be given >> the >> chance to learn how to group the roads and POIs into the correct City or >> Municipality. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jing >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> Get your new Email address! >> Grab the Email name you've always wanted before someone else does! >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > ________________________________ > Get your new Email address! > Grab the Email name you've always wanted before someone else does! > ________________________________ > New Email addresses available on Yahoo! > Get the Email name you've always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail. > Hurry before someone else does! > _______________________________________________ > 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