[talk-ph] finally met murlwe last friday and some thoughts we discussed

[maning sambale]

one more to add.

Palawan import - murlwe proposes we import the data as way/node
without tags (probably just a note=FIXME) and then allow Palawan
mappers to correct position and add tags base on GPS and local
knowledge.

On 7/13/09, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> As the subject says, I met murlwe last Friday, he returned one of the
> gpstogo units (which will be lent to ronny by august).
>
> We had a very interesting conversation I would like to share to the group.
>
> * Expanding the gpstogo program - gps loggers (for example navman) are
> now very cheap.  You can get a blue-tooth enabled unit for less than
> 2K PHP.  Most phones have a bluetooth. Won't get into the details but
> I think you get the idea.
> Plutocrat has this rig:
> http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/plutocrat-osm-ph-mapper/
>
> If we can raise some cash let's say 20K PHP, we can buy 20 data
> loggers and lend them to more mappers.  Jim (from one of his mails)
> suggested to make it a "competition".   If the mapper can gather X
> number of traces with the loaned unit, the mapper can own the gps.
> Now the question is, how can we raise the funds?
>
> * OSM-PH mini-conference - murlwe and the rest of the Davao mappers is
> very much interested in this.  Their ideacamp-davao spurred a lot of
> interest for OSM down south.  I think the ideacamp format (similar to
> unconference/bar-camp event) can be adopted here.  He suggested we
> need about 6 months lead time to get this rolling.  It doesn't have to
> be in Manila, btw.  If anyone can sponsor the event in any place I
> think everyone is OK with that.
>
> * Neuraltech - is developing really cool things around OSM data
> (address geocoding, routing, etc.) which is of particular interest to
> some of you.  I'll leave it to murlwe and smackcode to share them to
> us.
>
>
> --
> cheers,
> maning
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cheers,
maning
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