[talk-ph] queries to get me started

[maning sambale]

Dear Paul,

Lots of Qs.  Replies inline.
(I also cc'ed the osm-ph mailinglist)

The free osm garmin map I provide, came out of my hobby of creating
maps for my personal gps.
That is why it is linked to my personal wikispaces site.
We have plans to integrate the links to the openstreetmap.org.ph site soon.

> 1. How come the site http://esambale.wikispaces.com/osmphil_garmin#FREE
> OSM-PH Maps for Garmin GPS-Download is not listed
> on http://openstreetmap.org.ph/? Are you not related? I'm just a little
> confused because there's the site for openstreetmap.org.ph but no direct
> link to the map itself.

I don't use iGo8, but most GPS receivers should have a feature to save
POIs.  If you want to contribute
data to OSM-PH, you do your edits through the editing feature of
http://openstreetmap.org

> 2. I'm a newbie. Is there any way of creating a POI file for the iGo 8
> system from the OSM-PH maps using mapsource or some other method?

I do not have an exact metric to give you but as of previous month, we
have around 105,000 kilometers of roads in OSM.
Some posts on comparing rg and osm-ph below:
http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/is_rg_better_than_osm
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RoadGuide.ph/Data_comparison_with_OSM

> 3. How many POIs are currently available on OSM? How do you compare to
> Roadguide?

A good book about OSM here:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/openstreetmap/
If you have specific questions on editing OSm data I suggest you got
the the OSM PH mailinglist.
Some of the things we edit are specific to Philippine situations.

> 4. How do I contribute to OSM. I would like to plot POIs etc. What other
> information is possible? Traffic patterns, u-turns? dead ends? Any good book
> on learning these stuff?

The gmapsupp.img file created through Mapsource includes streetname search.
The gmapsupp.img direct download doesn't

> 5. Query on the difference between executable file for mapsource and the
> gmapsupp.img?  Once I send to device from mapsource, isn't the result the
> gmapsupp.img?

Yes.
> 6. Does gmapsupp.img include all the POIs already?

It is currently using Google's API, but the data is OSM.

> 7. On this site http://openstreetmap.org.ph/map/, can you explain how it
> could be powered by Google Maps and yet maps being provided by OSM? Doesn't
> Google use Tele Atlas or some other map provider?



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cheers,
maning
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