[talk-ph] OpenStreetMap for PH

[maning sambale]

Hi,

Some idea for your OSM PH website (I'm cc'ing the OSM Philippines list
so maybe they have other ideas)

Reporting errors - a good functionality for it would be to casually
report errors in the data.  While there maybe a lot of people visiting
the site, few will probably join OSM and edit/contribute.   Casual
visitors may look at the map and probably say "Hey, this road is
wrong!!".  Humans can easily identify mistakes in the map than
probably say this is good data ;).  OSM does not allow anonymous edits
which in some ways is good.  This limits (not eliminate)
errors/vandalism which happens a lot in wikimapia.  Openstreetbugs has
this functionality ( http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/ ).  We can
probably replicate this for the Philippine site?  Regular pinoy
mappers can then look at the reported bugs and edits them accordingly.

I'll send more ideas as it come to my head.  I cannot code anything
(other than nix shell scripts) so I can;t help there.  But will
happily test and provide feedback.

cheers,
maning

>>>>>> So why not make a website decided to OSM for PH and then a site (same
>>>>>> domain
>>>>>> or separate) that shows a map of only that area?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Our plan is thus to build an advocacy site for OSM in PH (similar to
>>>>>> what
>>>>>> we
>>>>>> did with PayPal earlier). The data of course gets distributed out to
>>>>>> everybody, and tutorials on how to install/create a map for one-self.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Once up we then use TopBlogs.com.ph (and our friends at sites like
>>>>>> Yugatech.com) to help motivate the community to build up the data.
>>>>>>

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