[talk-ph] OSM Philippines Server

[Ervin Malicdem]

This is a great project Mark!

Most of the specific Philippine tagging schemes can be found here. I use
the same resource for the Garmin map I compile.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines/Mapping_conventions

Ervin M.
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Mark Cupitt <markcupitt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All Philippine OSM'ers
>
> I am in the process of setting up our own OSM server for use with
> disasternet.org so that we can implement some specific styles and data
> presentations for use on our base map
>
> As a side project, if there is any interest, I am willing to set up a
> specific Philippine Map that can be styled to suit the work that OSM
> Philippines has done. What this means is that if there are any specific
> tagging schemes used that are unique to the Philippines we can display them
> any way we like.
>
> I will do this at no charge (as a community service) provided that it does
> not kill my servers and I will use Google Adsense to try and generate some
> income to mitigate costs and advertise Disasternet.org on it as well. If
> sponsorship of around P7-10K (10 is better) per month can be found, I can
> manage the server time, space and update frequencies in a way that will
> allow it to be set up so that the usage will be dedicated to the Philippine
> map and not shared with our other maps. I can also make it completely add
> free (which is good). It will still be on our integrated platforms, but
> isolated from other map requests.
>
> For the technically minded, the platforms we use are as follows
>
> Windows Servers
> Postgres 91. with PistGis2.0
> GeoServer
> GeoWebCache
> Styling via SLD
>
> Updates are done every minute from the main OSM servers
>
> Questions:
> Does the community want to have its own map that can be styled to suit the
> Philippines?
>
> If so, then:
> What Domain do you want to use.
> What tagging differences and styles do you want to implement. (I will set
> up a generic style on te map that we can discuss and modify)
>
> Looking forward to a positive response.
>
> Regards
>
> Mark Cupitt
>
> "If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence"
>
> See me on Open StreetMap <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mark_Cupitt>
>
> See me on LinkedIn <http://ph.linkedin.com/in/markcupitt>
>
>
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>
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