[talk-ph] Wiki Loves Monuments needs some mapping help

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

Hi guys,

I have created a public spreadsheet for the WLM sites:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtokxpcNebAxdGJSMFRqX3F5Q3pZd2JpTGxJYThlOGc

It seems crowdsourcing this task is the way to go and using the usual
geo-research methodologies (OSM, Google, Panoramio, Wikimapia,
WaypointsDotPH, etc.)

Eugene


On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Ed Garcia <eppgarcia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice! That's a very good tip.  Thanks Jim
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Jim Morgan <jim at datalude.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ed Garcia wrote, On Tuesday, 10 April, 2012 02:37 PM:
>> > Anyway, I have been locating many of these sites lately by using
>> > combined panoramio, google earth, wikimapia.  Latest ones are some POIs in
>> > Cagayan Valley.  Most often, I see some of these monuments tagged in
>> > panoramio photos that are linked to GE.
>>
>> Google Maps (not Earth) has a feature where you can right click on any
>> point on the map, and select "What's Here?". That puts a large green arrow
>> on the map. If you then click on the arrow it will pop up the co-ordinates
>> (in decimal as well as degrees, minutes, seconds). Thought that was quite
>> handy. And also, as you're placing the arrow yourself, then you're not
>> stealing any info from the Google database, so I imagine you can use this
>> information unrestricted.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> --
>>
>>   datalude: information security
>>   e: jim at datalude.com
>>   Philippines: +63 2 403 1311 / mob: +63 917 849 3939
>>   Hong Kong: +852 6489 4132
>>   w: http://www.datalude.com/
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> talk-ph mailing list
>> talk-ph at openstreetmap.org
>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
>
>
>
>
> --
> website administrator:
> - www.waypoints.ph
> - reeflife.eppgarcia.com
>
> PADI Divemaster #491048
>