[talk-ph] Remote mapping for health facility research

[maning sambale]

Dear everyone,

Just a brief update on this mapping work.  We are close to finishing
the priority areas we identified in Luzon, mostly updating roads and
river network.
For an overview of the changes the past month, check here:
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-changesets?comment=MCP%20Luzon#7/15.729/122.217

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 5:49 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear everyone,
>
> Just to inform you that this activity has started.  For details read below:
>
> Overview:
> World Health Organization (WHO) is conducting a research on the
> accessibility of health care facilities in Luzon using the tool
> AcessMod . They intend to use OpenStreetMap road and river network
> dataset for the above areas as input to their accessibility analysis.
>
> * Areas to cover - Regions I, II, III, IV-A, V, CAR and NCR (33
> provinces plus NCR)
> * Mapping priorities - Roads ( trunk, primary, secondary and
> tertiary), ferry routes and river network
> * Level of detail - 1:50K to 1:20K  or zoom levels 13-15
> * Period of mapping - May 2015
>
> Mappers involved:
> maning, GOwin, schadow1, feyeandal, Rally, jenjereren, G-eMapper,
> Ayoo, Hayat Tib Ben Hammadi
>
> Coordination and monitoring:
> To monitor and coordinate the mapping activity, we created a Tasking
> Manager instance based on HOT's Tasking Manager.
>
> Current changeest tags we are using are the following:
> #MCP Luzon River mapping
> #MCP Luzon Road mapping
>
> As a basic principle, we will respect the existing data in OSM,  if
> you have concerns with the edits of the above users in relation to
> this activity, please let us know.
>
> At the end of the mapping activity, we hope to intend stats on the
> results.  Thanks!
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:06 PM, maning sambale
> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear everyone,
>>
>> There is a potential paid remote mapping work request.
>>
>> Basically, an international humanitarian agency is doing a research work on the
>> accessibility of health care facilities in selected regions in Luzon
>> (Regions I, II, III, IV-A, V, CAR and NCR).  They are looking for the
>> best available road and river network dataset for the above areas as
>> input to their accessibility analysis. Naturally, OSM comes to mind ;).
>>
>> For this paid work, they are looking for experienced mappers to
>> do remote mapping and data quality check for the month of May 2015.
>> My personal OSM agenda, is that this will allow us to improve coverage
>> in many parts of Northern Luzon.  We are still establishing the appropriate
>> workflow.  Once remote mapping comes into full swing, we will inform the
>> community of the workflow to ensure that this will not affect any existing
>> mapping activities by volunteers in the above areas.
>>
>> If you are interested to be part of the team, send me a message offlist.
>> If there are any reservations by the community for this kind of paid mapping
>> activity let's also discuss here.
>>
>>
>> --
>> cheers,
>> maning
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>
>
> --
> cheers,
> maning
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cheers,
maning
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