OpenStreetMap
It’s a day short of a year since OSM-PHL got a letter from the Philippine Department of Education (DepEd) allowing us to incorporate some attributes of their school database into OpenStreetMap.
DepEd’s name for their project “maPaaralan” is a portmanteau of Map+Paaralan (Filipino word for school). I hope to revive this effort and see where we stand right now. The original discussions are here
I promised myself to contribute on more local projects next year, so I hope to make OSMaPaaralan as my first such project for 2015. See my OSMaPaaralan workplan
P.S. Hah! It appears this is actually my first diary entry, too. :D
Discussion
Comment from seav on 26 декабрь 2014 сәгать 02:04
I guess we can restart the discussions regarding this project.
But we still need to resolve the Google Maps coordinates issue first before we can proceed.
Comment from GOwin on 26 декабрь 2014 сәгать 07:22
+1
Assuming we are importing the coordinates as they are, this may be a useful reference for the discussion on coordinates: Is it acceptable to use coordinates from Google Maps and/or Earth on Wikipedia?
Takeaway: It’s okay as long as the geographic coordinates are not from Google’s geocoding service.
Option 2, appears to be the prudent way to go. Do not fold the coordinates into OSM, use them instead to identify the general area to work (identify, trace, tag) on.
Comment from GOwin on 26 декабрь 2014 сәгать 07:59
P.S.
After displaying the general area indicated by coordinates, the user will utilize Bing imagery to trace, tag, the feature(s).