[talk-ph] Building Resilient Communities in Bohol Through the Use of OpenStreetMap (OSM) -- Project Announcement

[Feye Andal]

Good day, OSM Philippines community!

The UP Resilience Institute (UPRI) <https://resilience.up.edu.ph/> was
established in 2016 with a mission statement to empower local communities
through multidisciplinary research and actions toward resilience. Last
year, the UP Resilience Institute Youth Mappers
<https://www.facebook.com/UPRIYouthMappers/> was formally launched under
the UPRI with the aim of mapping the communities using volunteered
geographic information (VGI) and building the capacities of the local
communities in order to fight real world problems such as poverty, disease,
hunger, and disasters.



With our new project, *“Building Resilient Communities in Bohol Through the
Use of OpenStreetMap (OSM)” *funded by the TELUS International Community
Board
<https://www.telus.com/en/about/company-overview/community-investment/how-we-give/community-boards/philippines>,
we seek to improve the structures dataset including building footprints and
road network and to produce municipal-level risk maps in the province of
Bohol through the use of open-source tools such as OSM, QGIS, and WebSAFE
that can be used for disaster risk planning and mitigation. OSM and its
associated mapping tools are effective at providing rapid support to local
government unit efforts in disaster risk reduction and management,
including strengthening of contingency plans and risk-sensitive land use
plans.


Having embraced public participation and open data, we collaborate with
like-minded organizations to help us improve emergency response and
disaster mitigation throughout the country. Part of this effort is to
conduct a 2-day OSM training in Bohol and finish the mapping task on HOT
Tasking Manager (https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/6212). The mapping
activities will run for 4 months (June-September). We hope to use the OSM
data in creating municipal-level disaster risk assessment that can be used
by the communities, LGUs, and NGOs.


We will be glad if you could join us in mapping the province of Bohol
through our mapping task. If you have question/s and concern/s regarding
the project, please do not hesitate to contact us.


Thank you so much!


Best,
Feye
--
Dinnah Feye H. Andal
MS Geography
University of the Philippines Diliman
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