[talk-ph] Fwd: RFC: importing Palawan roads

[maning sambale]

If anyone wants to look at the palawan roads, I can send them off-list
(like what I did for rally).  I am hesitant to provide a public link
because the provider wants it added to osm and not to any other
whatever.

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar<seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe the Palawan data as a whole is not ok, but looking at the image you
> supplied for Puerto Princesa, maybe that city's downtown data is still good
> enough after shifting it to more or less match the existing OSM data. While
> some parts will not be GPS accurate, the data is still pretty much useful
> for paper-map style of navigation.
>
> Then when somebody can do the actual surveying, he/she need only adjust the
> location of nodes.
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:13 PM, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> With more eyeballs all bugs are seen (Linus Torvalds)
>>
>> > Doing a quick check on proportions and shapes of different tracks from
>> > different portion of
>> > the map, I think the data supplied is trash. :-(
>>
>> As per Rally's assessment, I am holding-off to importing this data.
>> Unless, others can make sense of how we can use this for OSM.  I can
>> provide a download link to anyone who wants to play around with it.
>> If you think it's useable for OSM, we can discuss this here.
>>
>> Personally, nanghinayang lang ako, if this is good data (or at least
>> useful) a good chunk of roads will be added to OSM.  But as Rally
>> said,
>> > So, we'll surely get in trouble or lose good reputation for uploading
>> > bad data, hehe
>>
>> I'd rather accept someone saying we have wrong data because of an
>> honest newbie experimenting around than importing data we know having
>> big problems.
>>
>> Thanks Rally for doing the assessment.  Any other comments?
>
>



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