To cut on gas expenses, I suggest you try biking ;)

> We discussed some evidence of copyrighted data appearing in OSM, and what action should be taken (rather urgently)

We are also seeing "copyrighted data" around here (Philipines) as well.

I hope this could be sorted out both at the international and local level, without resorting to eit wars.

I also experienced the same problem (not raining though). Try to restart the unit and it should be OK.

And be careful biking in the rain ;)

Also add the tag "ph_gpstogo" in your traces. This way we can easily monitor the use of the units.

Can we use it for the Philippines?

Flickr needs to add Metro Manila Philippines as well. Road data of yahoo! is so poor here: http://www.flickr.com/map?&fLat=14.5792&fLon=121.0054&zl=5

But the current number of geotagged pictures are a lot (54,669)

Very nice! Complex, multi-polygons.

Gregory,

Thank you very much. You are correct I can't use JOSM with yahoo! imagery as well. Let's hope the plugin gets fixed soon. In the meantime, please continue adding roads in Metro Manila. We have local mappers who can continue your work. From experience, we get local contributions when there are existing data they can start with.

Ian,

I have a pending request with the gpstogo program which I plan to loan to Pinoy mappers. I hope it gets granted by the OSM foundation soon. I can lend you my GPS if you want. Being so busy these days I can't do much mapping in the field, plus the fact that I believe I have covered most of the streets within my biking distance.
osm.org/?lat=14.6482&lon=121.102&zoom=14&layers=00BFTF

Let me know if your interested.

> all it takes is smart motivated people and we can map the world. :)

Yes! Right on!

maning

Right! I did some import of data in Laguna sometime ago from government data, which I hope somebody would further edit. Thanks to you! Please edit them as you please. AFAIK there are no Yahoo! coverage in San Pablo. If you can coordinate with the local government, maybe we can request them to donate data for OSM. Much like what we did with Naga City. Great work by the way!

I cannot seem to get it working as a script in bash

Done!