[talk-ph] Manila barangays and barangay zones

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

Caloocan and Pasay barangay boundaries were obtained from maps provided by
the city government.

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A ground survey can be one source, but I'm not certain whether the City of
> Manila has those data.
>
> Side note: Where did you hot the data of the barangays of Caloocan and
> Pasay? I s it from surveying those cities or given by the city government?
> I am curious how they made their way to OSM.
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jherome,
>>
>> Do you have any good source for the barangays and zones of Manila? Please
>> note that GADM (and PhilGIS, which is derived from GADM), which is the
>> go-to source for barangays boundaries in the Philippines is not good enough
>> for OSM for 2 reasons:
>>
>> 1. The license of GADM does not allow commercial use. This is not allowed
>> to be added to OSM.
>> 2. The data for barangays is bad. You can see a comparison here:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:GADM_vs_OSM_-_Northern_Caloocan.png
>>
>> We in OSM have not yet added all Manila barangay and zone boundaries not
>> because we are lazy, but because accurate barangay data that is OK for use
>> for OSM is not available.
>>
>> ~Eugene
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 12:03 AM, Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Manila's map on barangay nodes/boundaries and barangay zone boundaries
>>> are still not added. While Manila's legislative and administrative
>>> districts are mapped, barangay and barangay zones are still incomplete
>>> or not mapped at all. I added barangays on Quiapo, but it is still
>>> few. Someone may help on adding those barangay nodes/boundaries and
>>> barangay zone boundaries.
>>>
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