[talk-ph] excellent work in subic and ormoc

[maning sambale]

In the meantime, please give the respective contributors the benefit
of the doubt ;)


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> I will communicate this to the respective mappers.
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> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:59 PM, D Tucny <d at tucny.com> wrote:
>> 2009/1/12 D Tucny <d at tucny.com>
>>>
>>> 2009/1/12 maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> Just found excellent updates in two areas:
>>>>
>>>> Subic/Olongapo:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.8266&lon=120.2912&zoom=14&layers=0B00FTF
>>>>
>>>> It looks like Olongapo is pretty much covered.  The editor is Deck
>>>> Antonio.
>>>> @ Deck are you on this list?  Great work!  May I know your data
>>>> source?  AFAIK, there are no high-res sat in that area.
>>>> Is this really entirely on gpx?
>>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Deck%20Antonio/traces/290144
>>>> Wow!
>>>
>>> I'm very concerned about that to be honest... The GPX file isn't from a
>>> GPS by the looks of it, it's created by an application called ExpertGPS,
>>> and, contained within it are panaramio points and descriptions of paths and
>>> polygons, which together suggest that potentially it was originally a google
>>> earth exported kml that has been converted with ExpertGPS to a GPX file...
>>> Google does have high res views of the area... If you download that GPX file
>>> and open it in google earth, you'll see that the track almost exactly
>>> followings the road layout and that buildings and areas are an exact match
>>> to the google imagery... this is BAD...
>>
>> Much of the area was done by user 'Rally', notes made on nodes and ways
>> as...
>> contributor='Waypointsdotph; Rally de Leon'
>> source='Rally de Leon pre-aligned GPS Trackmaker file'
>>
>> So, it appears that that data is largely imported from another source too,
>> and there is detail in there that can't be attributed to that user's
>> uploaded tracks or usable aerial imagery... In fact, certain features are
>> reproduced in such detail, considering there positions, that it would be
>> very unlikely that they could have been produced without aerial imagery,
>> and, infact, seems to effectively match the available google imagery...
>>
>> I'm sorry to say, but, I think all this data will probably have to be
>> removed unless a valid source can be documented...
>>
>> d
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