OpenStreetMap
my Garmin Nuvi warned me this morning that my US map was not updated for more than a year...it's not that i need to update it but i don't have a need to.
it just dawned on me that it's been with me for a year already, when i requested an online friend to buy it for me online then hand-carried it. we met at jollibee west ave a few days later...a kababayan retiree of mine who i've never really met (who also bought me an OBD 2 scanner for my car)
now what have i accomplished with my GPS? so far only a few POIs, even Munoz area where I live lacks the POIs except the banks (i'm from the banking industry that's why i always notice lacking banks and ATMs) and major restaurants. I realized i've yet to add lots of POIs in my home turf but i don't know how to tag them properly for I'm too lazy to look around again for some kind of OSM cheat sheet on how to properly tag POIs like pawnshops and LBC branches
i walked along roosevelt yesterday to observe and will update my area, it's nice that with Potlatch 2, I can just drag and drop them but if i don't know the proper tag, i simply ignore...lazy researcher or even ask questions :(
but at least, my focus on routing is reaping its benefits...found and corrected routing errors in QC, makati, manila, pasig, mandaluyong, malabon, san juan and cainta and almost impeccable now should wifey get lost again in these places
Discussion
Comment from AndrewBuck on 7 February 2011 at 14:26
If you have information about POI's that you are unsure how to enter you could always just create a point with a fixme tag on it containing a description of what it is. For example you could do something like:
fixme = Joe's Pawn Shop, 922 3rd street.
and then just list any information you gathered/know about it like that. There are may tools available that help people locate nodes with fixme tagged on them and if you entered them this way they could easily be filled in later with the appropriate tagging scheme by someone else. Good luck with your ground surveying.