[talk-ph] Planned event for mega armchair mapping of Metro Manila and surrounding towns

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

maning,

Any chance ESSC can host again? Or would you prefer somewhere else for a
change?


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:31 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear everyone,
>
> A research lab in Tokyo University in partnership with Georepublic is
> doing a research project on transport routing for selected mega-cities
> in South East Asia.
> Using open source and open data (OSM), they are doing person trip
> calculations and routing between districts or other small spatial
> units.
>
> As part of their research, they want to involve the respective OSM
> communities in updating and improving the road network within these
> megacities.
> The coverage for the Philippines is Metro Manila including the
> adjacent towns/cities of Rizal, Laguna, Cavite and Bulacan.
>
> Initial priority is to reach a degree of "completeness" for the road
> network.  The group is proposing a series of armchair mapping events
> for this.
>
> Rough plan are as follows:
> - Organize a 2-day armchair mapping event in Metro Manila to trace
> missing roads and improve "routability" of roads. Initially, turn
> restrictions are not a priority
> but we can decide if we want to add them including other features to
> enhance the coverage.
> - A parallel event in Japan will be hosted (using video a streaming or
> other synchronous communication) so that Japanese mappers can also
> help with the tracing.
> - Food and other swags will be provided by TokyoUni and Georepublic.
> - Date: end of March 2013, but still not final.
>
> Sending this to the list to solicit feedback and other ideas on the
> planned event.
>
> Currently we are looking for volunteers to help in the preps (and join
> the event) such as:
> - scouting for venue
> - swag designs (like t-shirt)
> - planning and other logistical preps
>
> First event will be Metro Manila but this will be replicated to other
> cities/countries in the region.
>
> --
> cheers,
> maning
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