[talk-ph] Non- Motorized Transport Forum and Mapping Workshop - 21st of April, 2012

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Fri Apr 20 12:36:55 BST 2012


Anybody, apart from Rally. Maning and Eugene joining this event?

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'll just give a short background regarding this event.
>
> Early this year, OSMPH was invited to help out with the crowd-sourced
> mapping aspects of the New Mobility Project (“Catalyzing New Mobility
> in Cities: The Case of Metro Manila”), which is spearheaded by the
> Ateneo School of Government through their Innovations at the Base of
> the Pyramid in Southeast Asia (iBoP Asia) initiative.
>
> They had a project launch last January 31 and February 1 where the
> target area to be used as an example was North Triangle in Quezon
> City. Rally attended that event and we were all pleasantly surprised
> to see OSM used as the map. You can check the write-up of that event
> from Smart here:
> <http://www.um-smart.org/blog/2012/02/08/smart-e-news-february-2012/>
>
> Some photos from that event showing OSM maps are the following:
> http://www.um-smart.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12-2-7_Manila-Mapping6.jpg
> http://www.um-smart.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12-2-7_Manila-Mapping5.jpg
> http://www.um-smart.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12-2-7_Manila-Mapping.jpg
>
> The project had another event on March 13 and the target area was the
> Ortigas CBD.
>
> So this April 21 event is just another one in a series of events for
> the New Mobility Project (NeMo). This time the target is non-motorized
> transport (i.e., cycling) and the groups invited are cycling advocates
> like the Firefly Brigade.
>
> I hope many of you can come. :)
>
> Eugene
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:31 PM, maning sambale
> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Corrected link to invitation:
>> https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-2WZQ1DwK_xdnhYQTljWVJfLTQ
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:24 PM, maning sambale
>> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear everyone,
>>>
>>> We are invited to facilitate a mapping workshop for non-motorized
>>> transport.  The goal of this workshop is to help various organization
>>> get started with OSM in mappping non-motorized transport facilities in
>>> Metro Manila such as:
>>>  - Cycling lanes, routes, parking, and related facilities
>>>  - Bike shops and service centers
>>>  - Points where cyclists gather on weekends
>>>
>>> 10 slots are reserved for any OSMer who can assist the group.
>>> Invitation letter and other details here:
>>> https://docs.google.com/open?id=16Rf4JkTxB1eETc0kfurlG0W6y66f4XD2o21mpOvOMxEbNtS1NGFUq_Y2DCwS
>>>
>>> Maning, Rally and Eugene will lead the workshop but any extra hands is
>>> most welcome.  If you are interested, please inform us.  We may need
>>> to meet in the morning to discuss distribution of tasks.
>>>
>>> --
>>> cheers,
>>> maning
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> cheers,
>> maning



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