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

[Erwin Olario]

Thank you sending the mailing list an update, Feye. We wish you success in
this effort!

We're looking forward to see the details and updates about your project on
its OSM Wiki page, as can be expected under the OSMF Organized Editing
Guidelines [0]

[0]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines

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On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 3:27 PM Feye Andal <andalfeye at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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