Hello.<br><br>Just like to add that a good road network opens up to all sorts of other applications with tools like pgRouting.<br><br>For example, in Disaster Management, an ambulance can find a shortest path that bypasses flooded roads to a hospital. Or by using the Traveling Sales Person (TSP) functionality, an efficient plan for distributing relief goods to different affected areas can easily be determined.<br>
<br>So, ensuring that Metro Manila's network is accurate is a very good activity to participate in.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Mario.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:31 PM, maning sambale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com" target="_blank">emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear everyone,<br>
<br>
A research lab in Tokyo University in partnership with Georepublic is<br>
doing a research project on transport routing for selected mega-cities<br>
in South East Asia.<br>
Using open source and open data (OSM), they are doing person trip<br>
calculations and routing between districts or other small spatial<br>
units.<br>
<br>
As part of their research, they want to involve the respective OSM<br>
communities in updating and improving the road network within these<br>
megacities.<br>
The coverage for the Philippines is Metro Manila including the<br>
adjacent towns/cities of Rizal, Laguna, Cavite and Bulacan.<br>
<br>
Initial priority is to reach a degree of "completeness" for the road<br>
network. The group is proposing a series of armchair mapping events<br>
for this.<br>
<br>
Rough plan are as follows:<br>
- Organize a 2-day armchair mapping event in Metro Manila to trace<br>
missing roads and improve "routability" of roads. Initially, turn<br>
restrictions are not a priority<br>
but we can decide if we want to add them including other features to<br>
enhance the coverage.<br>
- A parallel event in Japan will be hosted (using video a streaming or<br>
other synchronous communication) so that Japanese mappers can also<br>
help with the tracing.<br>
- Food and other swags will be provided by TokyoUni and Georepublic.<br>
- Date: end of March 2013, but still not final.<br>
<br>
Sending this to the list to solicit feedback and other ideas on the<br>
planned event.<br>
<br>
Currently we are looking for volunteers to help in the preps (and join<br>
the event) such as:<br>
- scouting for venue<br>
- swag designs (like t-shirt)<br>
- planning and other logistical preps<br>
<br>
First event will be Metro Manila but this will be replicated to other<br>
cities/countries in the region.<br>
<br>
--<br>
cheers,<br>
maning<br>
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