[talk-ph] Fwd: Planning ahead of disasters with GIS

[maning sambale]

I'm all for unifying GIS data for the whole Philippines, but before
they get on another mapping spending spree, please let us know
whatever happened to the geohazard mapping they initiated after the
leyte landslides:
http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/pe/pe003835.htm

Was it successful?
Did LGUs used the data?
Were lives saved because of these maps?

[with apologies for ranting]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:18 PM, George Tujan <gtujan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Incredible! it just might be a ploy to justify more government spendings :)
>
> I guess its up to us to really inform the government that OSM can really
> help. Bigay na lang natin sa mga biktima ang cost savings :)
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:09 PM, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Pucha!  I almost fell-off my chair!
>>
>> "With each map sheet costing P500,000, creating a GIS base map will
>> cost P6.5 billion."
>>
>> I know data creation is expensive, but is it really that much (500K
>> per mapsheet)?
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: rick at cp-union.com <rick at cp-union.com>
>> Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:31 PM
>> Subject: Planning ahead of disasters with GIS
>> To: maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> Sagutin natin na may available ng mga opensource tools for this and
>> what we need are more support from the government to complete base
>> maps ng phil. Much cheaper din kung open source gagamitin.
>>
>>
>> http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view/20091012-229676/Planning-ahead-of-disasters-with-GIS
>>
>> What you think?
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> cheers,
>> maning
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maning
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