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

[Mike Collinson]

This sounds like a wonderful resource both for what it gives OSM and for OSM to give back. Thanks Maning! 

Can you confirm the exact nature of the data?  There is one ESRI Shapefile per original map sheet per data type (rivers, roads, ...)?  And the Cartalinks vectors (sorry I am not familiar with this) is the same data but in a different format?

Mike

PS To quote from the wiki page for the benefit of the general talk list:

"PAFID is a non-profit organization providing mapping services to Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines through collaborative efforts like participatory and resource mapping as a tool for asserting Indigenous Peoples rights to resources and ancestral domain. The institution maintains comprehensive datasets of various topographic features of IP lands. These data includes topographic features such as roads, rivers, contour elevation, community resources, ancestral domain boundaries. "



At 04:40 PM 31/03/2009, Maning Sambale 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