[talk-ph] Typhoon Megi/Juan Humanitarian OSM Team activation request

Tue Oct 26 06:25:02 BST 2010

Hi Maning, 

To answer the question if we bought the maps from NAMRIA, yes the maps was bought from them and then scanned them. 

Good news that we could use their topo maps as long as we put them in our data reference.

--bunny
--- On Tue, 26/10/10, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Typhoon Megi/Juan Humanitarian OSM Team activation request
> To: "Eugene Alvin Villar" <seav80 at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Leonard Soriano" <banito_pinoy at yahoo.com>, "osm-ph" <talk-ph at openstreetmap.org>
> Received: Tuesday, 26 October, 2010, 6:10 AM
> Here's NAMRIA's response to my
> inquiry (I forgot to send to the list
> ASAP because it was marked as spam):
> 
> Dear Sir,
> 
> Did you buy the maps from the NAMRIA Map Sales Office?
> 
> You can use the maps, but please acknowledge NAMRIA as the
> source and
> mention the process you did on the maps (i.e scan,
> georeference/georegister and trace)
> 
> For more info. please call us at 8105466.
> 
> Truly yours,
> 
> Alvin Laurio
> 
> My original message:
> Hi, I would like to ask legal clarification on the use of
> the NAMRIA
> 1:50k topographic maps. If I manually scan the maps and
> distribute
> them for free to colleagues on the internet and allow then
> to trace
> features in the image, am I infringing NAMRIA's copyright
> over the
> maps? Please provide clarification. The paper maps do not
> clearly
> indicate restrictions of use of the map. Thank you very
> much.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Are these maps kosher for tracing?
> >
> > The Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines
> (Republic Act No.
> > 8293) has this to say:
> >
> > "Section 176.1. No copyright shall subsist in any work
> of the
> > Government of the Philippines. However, prior approval
> of the
> > government agency or office wherein the work is
> created shall be
> > necessary for exploitation of such work for profit.
> [...]"
> >
> > The Wikipedia community has taken this to mean that
> government works
> > are still copyrighted because of the non-commercial
> clause.
> >
> > But, additionally, copyright in the Philippines
> generally persist for
> > the author's life + 50 years or 50 years after
> publication/making
> > depending on the work. So maps published in the 1950s
> *might* be OK.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:33 PM, maning sambale
> > <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Bunny,
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Leonard Soriano
> >> <banito_pinoy at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Maning rectified. However naka Transverse
> Mercator/Luzon Datum. I can re-project kung kinakailangan
> pero madami dami rin yun.
> >>
> >> If possible please re-project to lat/lon wgs84
> (EPSG:4326).  Upload it
> >> somewhere we can fetch the data.
> >>
> >>> CI produced a dataset ng rivers based on the
> Namria 125.000k. Pero They also produced a Philippine
> shoreline that includes main rivers (eg. Cagayan River)
> based on 1:50k topo maps.  Extracting the polylines of the
> rivers might is easy and can be used temporarily while the
> Landsat river system is on the way being digitized.
> >> The CI dataset requires a whole lot of data
> request processing (data
> >> holders are a combination of NGO, and national
> agencies, which
> >> requires everyone's approval).
> >>
> >>> May specific province ba pagsisimulan ng focus
> ng mapping? or lahat basta na apektuhan ng bagyo?
> >> I'm still collating information on the heavily
> affected areas.  Please
> >> help in sorting the information.
> >> NDCC has soem good reports on provincial site
> reports:
> >> http://www.ndcc.gov.ph/
> >>
> >> Make sure to update the wiki:
> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines_Tropical_Storm_2010
> >>
> >>> --bunny
> >>>
> >>> --- On Mon, 18/10/10, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> From: maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> >>>> Subject: [talk-ph] Typhoon Megi/Juan
> Humanitarian OSM Team activation request
> >>>> To: "osm-ph" <talk-ph at openstreetmap.org>,
> "osm-talk" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
> >>>> Received: Monday, 18 October, 2010, 10:55
> AM
> >>>> Dear everyone,
> >>>>
> >>>> I created an activation request for
> mapping affected areas
> >>>> Typhoon
> >>>> Megi/Juan in the Philippines.  At the
> moment, there
> >>>> are no high-res
> >>>> available in the area.  What we can for
> now is to map
> >>>> large rivers
> >>>> visible in Landsat which is likely to be
> flooded.
> >>>>
> >>>> As the event progresses, we will evaluate
> specific areas
> >>>> needing
> >>>> high-res imagery.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks in advance for supporting the
> initiative.
> >>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/philippines_juan
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> cheers,
> >>>> maning
> >>>>
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> all" -N.Branden
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> >>>>
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> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> cheers,
> >> maning
> >>
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> 
> -- 
> cheers,
> maning
> ------------------------------------------------------
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