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

[maning sambale]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> How big an area do the data sheets cover?
A 1:10K large scale map covers approximately 5KM by 5 KM.  At the
moment NAMRIA has very few urban areas covered (such as Metro Manila
Cebu, Iloilo).  By geodata's estimate that's around 13,000 mapsheets.
Developing this kind of data is really a huge investement (buying
aerials, less than 4 meters DEM resolution, updating vector
attributes).

> Maybe the budget also covers data maintenance over a set number of years?
> Then again, the government tends to "overbudget" on IT projects like this.
> :-/
I hope so, but what worries me is when we start doing this, can we
sustain the effort?  In some LGUs , they have way better GIS database
than what NAMRIA has. Moreover,  does it make much sense to do 1:10K
mapping for rugged, uninhabited areas of the Philippines?

> 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
>>
>>
>>
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>> maning
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