[talk-ph] Reviving plan(s) for Tagaytay Mapping party

[Rally de Leon]

Maning,
Collecting waypoints in tagaytay was how me and my wife spent our
anniversary :-) after staying overnight at the Moon Garden Cafe
bed&breakfast. Sinusulit yung cost of fuel and lodging, so might as well
take waypoints for pasalubong before going back to manila, hehe. Well, my
wife enjoyed the activity; but don't worry, i'm not taking her to the
mapping party, as we need room for equipments in the car :-D i still have to
figure out how to rig a 12v regulator for my netbook, unless someone can
bring a DC-to-AC inverter. My china 12v 3A lighter plug adaptor is no longer
working.

BTW, i used Nroute on a netbook with sirf usb ext antenna (good low EPE at
that time); i did the driving and my wife did the typing. It's all hands
free mapping. All I have to say to her was "Ctrl-W" (to mark the waypoints)
and indicate if it's a Left or Right side waypoint (L or R). Very efficient,
even if it's a stop and go driving. But you will have to decide if you will
be collecting waypoints or tracks. Because for tracklogs, you always need to
drive at the center of the road; for waypoints you need to drive by the road
side so as not to block the traffic when you stop for a good 2-3-sec and get
quality coordinates (coz some gps receivers calculate coordinates every
1-second, some every 5-seconds only - especially the bluetooth antennas) -
and we need to consider this. Although time is also a factor, because of
limited mapping hours.

I discovered that even with a city like Tagaytay, if you ask the residents
their street name, they answer back with the name of  their sitio or purok;
then they will ask you if you are lost or something. I always have a ready
answer for that. :-) They don't know their street names or probably no
official street names at all.

rally

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Maning Sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
> Rally just uploaded numerous POIs around Tagaytay for use to verify
> during the mapping party.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/954444
>
> Nice one rally! I can only say, if it came from Rally, it's good data!
>
>
> On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 17:07 +0800, maning sambale wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Maybe it should be May 16 or 17?
> >
> > Sorry, I stand corrected so it's May 16 in Tagaytay
> >
> > maning
> > eugene
> > rally
> > andre
> > ianlopez (85%)
> > murlwe (will try)
> > neil
> >
> > Anymore?
> >
> > Rally proposes to carpool to share fuel costs.
> >
> --
> cheers,
> maning
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