[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Scholarship program to State of the Map 2011
Jim Morgan
jim at datalude.com
Tue Sep 6 04:06:03 BST 2011
Sounds great so far.
You might also want a small section on the particular challenges peculiar to the Philippines. Just off the top of my head:
- The lack of satellite data (always good to plug that one). So we rely more heavily on contributions, especially in rural areas.
- The different ways of subdividing areas. City / Barangay / Village etc. and how that maps onto the OSM categories
- The different names for things. How do we mark a sari-sari store? (insert picture into slideshow) Convenience? Vulcanizing store (cue Spock joke ...).
Those are a few issues that I remember from the discussions on this list. I think this is the sort of thing which would be interesting to others from outside: The quirks.
Jim
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