WikiProject Philippines
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OSM Philippines website
We have a website! OpenStreetMap.org.ph aims to be an advocacy website to help promote OpenStreetMap to the Philippines. If you wish to introduce OpenStreetMap to Filipinos, this website would be a good link. WikiProject Philippines, on the other hand, is targeted for actual mappers and not necessarily for casual users.
Mailing list
The OSM Philippines mailing list (talk-ph) (alternative archives: The Mail Archive, Gmane) is where all the discussions regarding mapping the Philippines take place. When agreements are made, these are documented here in the Wiki. As such, the talk pages here in the Wiki should only be used for discussing how to improve and organize the various Wiki pages and not for discussing how to map the Philippines.
Events and Mapping Parties
Shown below are some recent and upcoming offline OpenStreetMap events and Mapping Parties in the Philippines. If you're interested, check out the Events page and the Mapping Party page for a complete list and also if you want to get involved in participating and organizing such activities.
| Event | Date | Venue | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ortigas-Mandaluyong Mapping Party | 2010-05-22 | Ortigas Center and Mandaluyong | Mapping Party to complete some important blank parts of Metro Manila, namely the buildings of Ortigas Center, new developments around the area, and the road network in eastern Mandaluyong. Oh, and POIs too. |
| SkillShare | 2010-06-26 | CBTL, Eastwood City | SkillShares are short sessions either in a pub, cafe or anywhere. Experienced OSMers gives hands-on tutorials to newbies mapping techniques and other fun things you can do with OSM data. |
| | Cavite Road Network Mapping Party | 2010-09-11 | Cavite | This Mapping Party aims to complete and verify the major road network of Cavite such that basic routing between the different cities and municipalities of this historic province is possible. |
News
- 2010-05-28 - OpenStreetMap Philippines Inc. was incorporated at the Securities and Exchange Commission as Non-Stock Corporation
- 2010-03-31 - ARIVAC Consortium donated 420++ km of roads and 1,979 POIs in several municipalities in Bohol. Import process page.
- 2009-10-28 - New High Resolution Images in Openstreetmap available in Pangasinan
- 2009-09-26 - Philippines struck by Typhoon and floods. HOT mapping the aftermath
- 2009-06-18 - Philippine Information Agency press release publicizing the Davao Mapping Party from the Club 888 media forum.
- 2009-03-17 - Chin Wong of Manila Standard writes about Google Map Maker, OpenStreetMap, and WaypointsDotPH (archived blog entry).
- 2009-02-18 - Enthropia is offering 25,000 PhP to any mapper to map Boracay. See announcement
- 2009-01-20 - Chin Wong of Manila Standard talked about OSM in the Philippines (archived blog entry).
- 2009-01-17 - Naga City a featured image of the week. See image here.
Mapping status
Mapping of the Philippines started sometime in 2006 when (?) marked EDSA in Metro Manila via GPS traces. Since then, mapping effort continued to rapidly increase throughout the years. When Yahoo! permitted OSM to use their satellite imagery for tracing in December 2006, mapping of Metro Manila, one of the areas covered exploded and remains to be the most mapped area in the Philippines approaching around 90% of roads mapped.
Other areas with significant mapping activities include Davao City, which is another area covered by Yahoo!'s imagery, areas in greater Metro Manila, Angeles and Clark, Baguio, and Boracay. Government geospatial data has been imported and these include roads for Laguna and the whole of Naga City in Camarines Sur. Major roads of Mindanao have been mapped as well as other national highways around the Philippines.
Milestones
- Town and City names from Geonet Name Server uploaded - December 2007
- Yahoo! has Metro Manila covered for high-res imagery - July 2007
- Coastline from SRTM uploaded - ? 2007
Mapping conventions
The Mapping conventions page contains a summary of the Philippine-specific mapping conventions. As much as possible, mapping and tagging should follow the conventions set by the OpenStreetMap community as a whole, such as indicated in pages like Map Features, Feature Index, and Editing Standards and Conventions. Where these conventions need clarifications in the Philippine context, this page documents such conventions as agreed upon by the Philippine OSM community.
GPStogo program
The OSM Philippines community is a recipient of GPS units from the OSM Foundation's GPStogo program. The WikiProject Philippines' GPStogo program page is the location for coordinating the use of these devices and documenting the output as a result of using the GPS units.
Available high resolution imagery
The list of high resolution imagery in the Philippines for tracing features are here
Data import
The Data import page documents the import of various open-content data related to the Philippines into the OSM database. Some of the data sources includes the GEOnet Names Server and Naga City's GIS department.
Members
If you are a Filipino or are otherwise interested in mapping the Philippines, please add your name to the Members page. Note that the Wiki username is your username here in the OSM Wiki while the OSM username is your username when contributing to the actual OpenStreetMap. Also, add where you are based in and where you are concentrating in mapping so that other people can know who to contact in case they need advice or help mapping a particular location. (You don't have to put your real name if you don't want to.)
OSMPH Local
Filipino websites that use OSM
- Ortigas Online - uses OSM to show the locations of various buildings in Ortigas Center.
- Red Cross Rizal Chapter - uses OSM to indicate the location of their branches in Rizal province.
- WaypointsDotPH - uses OSM for the vicinity information of various travel destinations in the Philippines. An example is Pinatubo.
- MyCam Asia - uses OSM for the vicinity information of destinations with webcams.
- ClickTheCity.com - uses OSM to show maps of business listings in their directory. An example is BoNa Coffee Westgate.
- DabaweGNU - uses OSM to indicate the location of their office.
- StepJuan - a walking expedition from Pagudpud to Sorsogon to raise awareness and funds for cancer warriors. Using OSM data for plotting the routes.
- SM Supermalls - uses OSM to show the location of some of their malls. An example is SM Southmall.
