[talk-ph] Province place nodes

[maning sambale]

Why place=state?


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Further update:
>
> To the best of my abilities, I can't find the Mountain Province node so I
> added it[1] and confirmed that there is a node for Quirino.
>
> [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/495914621/history
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Ok. I tried a crack at checking/fixing the Oriental Mindoro place node and
>> found out that this is much harder than I thought.
>>
>> First, I tried confirming whether there's a place node for Oriental
>> Mindoro. Doing this with Potlatch is impossible so I used Merkaartor and
>> serially downloaded the data in the area of Oriental Mindoro. I found no
>> node and decided that there was none in the first place so I added the
>> node[1].
>>
>> Then on a whim, I tried the OSM Name Finder[2] despite its outdated data
>> and found that there was indeed an existing node[3], except that it was
>> located in Occidental Mindoro (which was why I didn't find it in the first
>> place). So I deleted the node I added earlier and moved this existing node
>> in its place. In the process, I renamed the existing node from "Mindoro
>> Oriental" to "Oriental Mindoro" and removed the tags pertaining to the GNS
>> import since the coordinates no longer match that of the GNS database[4],
>> which was the source for the original import.
>>
>> I think doing this is easier with JOSM and with a planet.osm[5] Philippine
>> extract but I refuse to install a Java virtual machine on my old computer.
>> :-)
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/495881060/history
>> [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Name_finder
>> [3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/305704531/history
>> [4] http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html
>> [5] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:48 AM, maning sambale
>> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I can try but not until weekend.  Hope somebody beats me.
>>>
>>
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