Yay! I never would’ve thought that my suggestion of “Ramoth” as a dragon’s name would be picked up quite quickly. :)

marscot, thanks! :)

Hi Harry,

These outlines were all compiled manually: basically by tracing the outlines in JOSM then saving the OSM file which is then converted to JSON (data.js).

The dates that you see in the layer control are the dates when the corresponding imagery were discovered by the local community.

I hope Bing would release an update history similar to what Google is doing for Google Earth. But until that happens, we just stumble onto new imagery every now and then.

Hi Gladys! So you got bitten by the OSM bug? Hehe.

If you're interested, why not join the OSM-PH mailing list: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/

We discuss there a lot of geeky map topics. :)

Try clearing your browser cache. There were some stuff that were updated (like a new version of Potlatch 2 as you may have noticed). :)

You think buildings in your village make the map look cluttered? Try a densely-populated city in a Third-World country like the Philippines. Here are the buildings traced in the city of Marikina: osm.org/go/4zhZBhXXl-

Anyway, to echo what Richard says, the beauty of OpenStreetMap is that you can take the raw data and render a map with the right amount of detail that you prefer. If you want a clean and spartan map, you can do so. If you are the type who loves architecture, then a map showing buildings is also possible, thanks to your effort to add the building outlines. :)

Here's an explanation why Google supposedly delayed in adding the border in Google Maps/Google Earth: http://ogleearth.com/2011/07/mapping-south-sudans-northern-border-not-so-fast/

Yay! It was my first mapping party outside my country and I had lots of fun. Hopefully I can attend next year in DC. :)

And it was nice meeting you. :)

-Eugene

Wait, 5 guys are named Алек? :)

noexit is one of those tags useful for a map-in-progress, not for a "complete" and fixed map.

Good luck! And keep those traces coming in! :-)

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Hi tutubi,

Are you completely sure that some data may have been copied? Maybe there's a street sign saying "Quinale Street" or maybe it may have been copied from some other map elsewhere.

I was the one that added a whole bunch of POIs on West Avenue. I think I got all the banks and restaurants there. I definitely missed a few car repair shops--there are quite a lot of them there. :-)

Thank you very much for implementing the timeout!

@compdude,

Google Map Maker has been existing for a few years now but in other countries. It was only recently that they opened this service up in the United States.

So you're saying that you will never support the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) as well, two of the most admired open-source projects in the world?

The ASF forces on all its code contributors the following similar language in their contributor license agreement: "You hereby grant to the [Apache Software] Foundation and to recipients of software distributed by the Foundation a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works."

In the FSF's case, you don't just share rights, you transfer all your copyright to the code to FSF.

And your concern is the reason why the CT does not *only* contain the section you quoted. The CT *also* includes material that the published OSM database can only be under CC-BY-SA 2.0 or ODbL+DbCL (or another suitably open license that active contributors can vote on).

IANAL, but this means that the OSM database can never be proprietary. In your hypothetical example of OSMF dissolving, the CT is likely to be dissolved as well and nobody gains any rights over the database without also gaining the responsibilities (that is, maintaining the "openness" of the OSM database).

Anyway, the OSMF Strategic Working Group currently is going through the Articles of Association (and presumably, the Memorandum as well) and it might be a simple matter to add a clause or something to make it explicit that the data rights conferred to OSMF via the CT cannot be given as proprietary rights to a successor in case of dissolution.

Hi. I'm really sorry for the bother, but the queue is now up to 445 as of this moment.