[talk-ph] request for assistance to import Philippine data from PAFID

[maning sambale]

Just realized I posted these on the eve of April 1 ;).  Please take
this post seriously and I need all the help I can get to make this
import rolling.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Maning Sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> PAFID gave OSM Philippines permission to import it's geodata mainly of
> topographic features based on digitized 1:50K topomaps of the country.
>
> The coverage are the mountainous and rural areas of the country where no
> satellite image or GPS maybe available.
>
> Approximately 179 toposheets are available or roughly 18% of the entire
> 1:50K toposheets of the whole country.
>
> I am currently collecting ideas on how we can add the data to OSM here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Data_import/pafid_data
>
> To date, this is one the biggest data import we will do for the
> Philippines and will cover much of the unmapped areas.
>
> Please share your insights on how we can implement the import.  I am
> hopeful that the success of this import would pave the way for many
> geodata silos in the Philippine to donate data to OSM.
>
> --
> cheers,
> maning
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cheers,
maning
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