[talk-ph] Fw: Philippines

[Mikel Maron]

Received the message below from MapAction .. major kudos, plus requests for data, if there's any possibility of collecting it.



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From: Andrew Smith 
Subject: RE: Philippines

Hi Mikel,

Thanks for your email.

The OSM data has been fantastic - please pass on our congratulations and
thanks to the OSM Philippines team.

There is a big need for roads data outside Metro Manila, in particularly in
Region III and Region I. The Provinces of La Union, Pangasinan, Tarlac and
Pampanga are the worst hit by Pepeng/Parma.

Additionally there is the need for the current road status throughout all of
the above areas, all the western edge of Laguna De May (see the AOI map
attached - this was made for a different purpose, but suffices for this.)

There is GIS officer from WFP/Logs Cluster arriving soon, so I will mention
your interest and OSM PH's efforts to them. Longer term they would be the
people on the international side of thing who will be wanting to know about
roads.

If you've not already found it, you may be interested in the Typhoon Ondy
Google Group:
http://www.google.com/landing/typhoon-ondoy.html

We have been in contact with them. They have setup a crowd-source mapping
effort with some success - helped by the fact that they have some Google
alumni amongst their numbers, meaning that they where for a while on the
www.google.com.ph landing page. There are quite a lot of other crowd source
efforts about and they are now attempting to aggregate them. They have been
after roads and road status data recently. I'd recommend you and/or OSM PH
introducing themselves on that list.

The boundaries are a definite no I'm afraid. This was given to us by GeoData
(www.geodata.com.ph) the local ESRI supplier - under a use but don't share
arrangement. The other publicly available boundary data was a bit of a mess
I'm afraid.

Best wishes,
Andy

Andy Smith - Philippines Field Team
MapAction (www.mapaction.org)
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