[talk-ph] Data improvements in the Philippines

[Erwin Olario]

Hi Andrew. Thank you for sharing this.

May we know how this information was collected? I did some random checking
in my neighbourhood, and some of the names in your database don't match or
only partially match what's on the ground.


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On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 1:59 AM Andrew Wiseman via talk-ph <
talk-ph at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> This is Andrew again from the Apple team. I wanted to let you know that we
> are sharing street names missing from OSM in the Philippines under the ODbL
> in case you were interested in taking a look. The data is in a geojson file
> with line geometry, name and OSM way ID(s). There is more information and
> you can download the file here:
> https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/blob/master/STREETNAMES.md
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
> Andrew Wiseman |  Maps | iPhone: +1.202.270.4464 |
> andrew_wiseman at apple.com
>
> On May 28, 2020, at 4:52 PM, Andrew Wiseman <andrew_wiseman at apple.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello talk-ph,
>
> This is Andrew again from the Apple Maps team. We are planning to work on
> some data corrections and improvements to OSM in the Philippines around the
> road network — for example, sometimes there are missing roads or routing
> issues due to incorrect intersections or missing connections. We will make
> sure to follow the appropriate OSM and local guidelines.
>
> In the future we also plan to do some improvements to coastal features and
> land use/land cover polygons, such as parks, university and hospital
> campuses, airports and similar features. Some examples may be things like
> coastlines and national parks that are missing a tag or are from old
> imports that may not be very accurate. I’ll reach out before we start that
> effort too.
>
> I wanted to see if you had any suggestions or feedback on the road
> network, such as if there are places we should take a look or other useful
> resources.
>
> There is more information on our Github page:
> https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues/160
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andrew
>
> Andrew Wiseman |  Maps | iPhone: +1.202.270.4464 |
> andrew_wiseman at apple.com
>
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