Any photo of the printed map? It could become a Featured OSM image. :-)

@Andy, at very large scales and at latitudes far from the poles, I doubt that the difference between spherical mercator and true mercator would be noticeable.

Well, if the names are wrong in the first place--whether or not the wrongness matches Google's or not--then you should correct them.

Getting a nice track of the service road will be hard since Forum Robinsons is surrounded by tall buildings.

@!i!, in the Philippines, gated residential communities with security are often called "villages".

Welcome! Thanks for adding data in Atimonan, Quezon. OpenStreetMap could definitely use a lot of help in the provinces. :-)

If you have any questions or problems, you should ask the Philippine OSM mailing list. I'm sure you've seen the link going there already on the Wiki.

Happy mapping! And maybe you might want to join one of our mapping parties soon. :-)

Tracks of already mapped areas? They're useful in many ways. Here's a couple: they can provide independent proof about the location of roads, and people can mine the data for speed analysis. :-)

They are just following their policy. On their external links guidelines, they said not to link to map services (or even supporting pages such as the OSM wiki). It doesn't matter that OSM is CC-BY-SA and linking to a wikiproject page on OSM from a travel guide doesn't help their readers.

Well, Wikimedia being based in the US takes the US position on copyright that facts are uncopyrightable. So you can take encyclopedic facts and rewrite them in your own words just as you can copy map facts, but not the map styles and other representation, and present them in your own style.

OSM, being a UK-initiated project, also considers the EU-database rights and UK's sweat-of-the-brow view on copyright so OSM has to be stricter with respect to facts taken from a database.

Unfortunately, given Yahoo's financial problems, it's unlikely that they will be getting new satellite imagery soon. So the best bet is to track roads using GPS.

Anong ang eksaktong problema?

At least we know that some of the spammers are not bots.

Using Google Maps as a reference site is a no-no everywhere, not just in San Salvador.

Spam. signed up for osm for the sole purpose of promoting a website.

At least in my country, Nokia's Navteq data is still using the no-good-for-navigation VMAP0 public domain dataset. So unless they manage to get better data, their map app is useless. A shame since Nokia is the #1 mobile phone manufacturer here.

I wonder if it's possible to automatically flag accounts as spammers if they write a diary entry with links without having any OSM edits.

I can only think of Lesotho and Kosovo (although the latter is not universally recognized as a country). Ah, I only thought of Mexico just now. :-)

@lyx, no, layer=-1 does not mean underground. It simply means that a feature is below those nearby with layer=0 to layer=5. The fact that the default is layer=0 and is used for the vast majority of features that lie flat on the ground is just a happy accident.

FWIW, I agree that the vitriol in the said diary entry is too much. The website owner may have been rude in his second e-mail, but Paul's response by ranting here in OSM is not appropriate.

I'm glad to hear that our blog posts inspired you to contribute to the project. OSM really needs all the contributors it can get!

Have you seen maning's Philippine maps for Garmin devices made from OSM (http://esambale.wikispaces.com/osmphil_garmin)? He has an experimental edition for Magellan units (http://esambale.wikispaces.com/osmphil_garmin#toc6) and you might want to try that and help him improve it. :-)