[talk-ph] Reviving plan(s) for Tagaytay Mapping party
Eugene Alvin Villar
seav80 at gmail.com
Wed May 13 17:26:01 BST 2009
Hi guys,
Let's set the meeting place to be the Starbucks in the restaurant complex
here:
http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.102179&lon=120.952071&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF
Meeting time is 9:00 am.
Good?
Eugene
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> The planned mapping party is less than a week away. So let's get the
> planning into high gear.
>
> First of all, please confirm again your attendance by replying. Also
> indicate if you'll be bringing a vehicle that can be used for mapping. If
> you're not bringing a car, do you plan to go to Tagaytay using public
> transportation or would you be willing to be picked up along the way (maybe
> in Alabang?). Also indicate if you have any GPS devices that can be used.
> Hopefully we can fix travel arrangements for everyone soon.
>
> Second, depending on the available transportation, I don't think that
> everyone can do mapping individually so maybe we'll split the group into
> teams of 2 or 3 people. The number of teams will affect how we divide the
> Tagaytay cake.
>
> Third, we need to draw up a list of target places to map. While we can just
> say "map as much as possible" it would be best to prioritize by having a
> scavenger-hunt type of list of important POIs and landmarks, usually
> touristy in nature. Here's an initial list of possible places I cobbled
> together from various tourist web pages about Tagaytay:
>
> * City Hall
> * Picnic Grove
> * People's Park in the Sky
> * Taal Vista Hotel
> * Casino Filipino
> * Tagaytay Highlands
> * Tagaytay Crosswinds
> * Development Academy of the Philippines
> * Pink Sisters Convent
> * Divine Word Seminary
> * other retreat houses (Tagaytay is a popular destination for religious
> retreats)
> * Filipino-Japanese Friendship Garden
> * (some zoo that I visited before but can't remember what its name is)
> * Mushroom Burger!
>
> It would be nice if we can get extensive data for some of these places,
> e.g. buildings, driveways, walking paths of Picnic Grove.
>
> Here's the "Maps" web page of the Tagaytay City website:
> http://www.tagaytay.gov.ph/Maps.html
>
> Fourth, I'm volunteering to be the point contact person. (Maning famously
> doesn't have a cellphone so I'm not sure if he's willing to be the contact
> person.) If you all agree, confirmed participants should e-mail me privately
> their cellphone numbers.
>
> Anything else I missed?
>
>
> Eugene / seav
>
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Ed Garcia <eppgarcia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> E-Z Map has a map for Tagaytay City. Perhaps you can use that to divide
>> the cake. You may want to divide it by the 4 major roads linking to the
>> main Tagaytay road (Mendez Road, Amadeo Road, Aguinaldo (Silang Road), Sta
>> Rosa Road. This should give 5 major areas.
>>
>> just a suggestion ...
>>
>> :>) ed
>>
>> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:56 PM, maning sambale <
>> emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need help in slicing the "cake" for our Tagaytay mapping party,
>>> something like this:
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London_mapping_party
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I can't find a good tagaytay map on the web to use a
>>> reference (even the big G don't have high-res sat image). I am also
>>> unfamiliar with Tagaytay. Anybody willing to prepare the cake for the
>>> party?
>>>
>>>
>>
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