[talk-ph] Quezon City mapping: districts

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

<Forwarding reply to the list>

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As a side note, Manila's districts are not obviously marked (possibly the
> same as the case of Quezzn City), but official boundaries assigned by the
> City of Manila has been mapped (the districts of Manila are officially
> designated). Possibly those district boundaries are mapped based on
> physical features and place addresses.
>
> On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I created the Cubao boundary by extrapolating some data from boundaries
>> of barangays that may possibly form part of Cubao.
>>
>> Although "general areas", the approximate boundaries can be mapped. Also,
>> some barangays are inside a certain district, and a ground survey on
>> addresses of places on those barangays can be used to verify them.
>>
>> A few can be defined by surrounding streets (e.g. Santa Mesa Heights
>> district boundaries are formed by its surrounding roads,like Quezon Avenue,
>> Araneta Avenue, Del Monte Avenue, and Mayon Avenue). and water bodies like
>> rivers, or both (Diliman looks like to be one example. The Diliman Creek
>> forms one part of the approximate boundary, while roads, like Katipunan
>> Avenue, Commonwealth Avenue, North Avenue, West Avenue, a part of Quezon
>> Avenue, Don A. Roces Avenue, and a portion of Tomas Morato Avenue forms the
>> rest.
>>
>> Hope this advice helps.
>>
>> On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know if QC's districts have ever been defined. As far as I can
>>> tell, they are general areas and there is no hard line delineating these
>>> districts.
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Quezon City's political map on OpenStreetMap is mostly complete, with
>>>> every barangay mapped, but the district boundaries are still missing,
>>>> although district nodes are already added. I started to add nodes for those
>>>> districts, like Novaliches, New Manila, Santa Mesa Heights, Diliman, and
>>>> Balintawak, but district boundaries are still undefined. Can someone map
>>>> Quezon City's district boundaries, while I'll add the others, like the
>>>> Project areas La Loma, and Bago Bantay (possibly the same as the "Munoz"
>>>> area)?
>>>>
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