OpenStreetMap
Early this month, Butuan City was again the site for a crowd-sourced mapping workshop using OpenStreetMap (OSM), part of the Coordinating Roads and Infrastructure Investment for Development (CR+ID) initiative for industry mapping series run by The Asia Foundation.
Last Saturday, the U.S. Embassy in Manila hosted a workshop and mapathon to add data to Project 1129: Missing Maps: Leyte, Philippines. Organized by Celina Agaton/Map the Philippines and OpenStreetMap Philippines(OSMph) advocates. I took a few photos, too.
During the closing activity, the top new mappers were awarded with prizes, but only new mappers were taken in consideration, and I neglected to give due recognition to two “old” mappers who contributed significant number of edits in the area of interest during the mapathon, namely curran74 and Sea Tea Zen.
Last month, Simon Poole wrote a post in his diary where he also posted a data dump of global “first edits” by new contributors since 2005. You should head there to read more about it, especially the methodology and caveat section.
The cumulative global top five in terms of new edits are Germany, the United States, France, Russia, and UK. Meanwhile, in Asia, India heads the pack with Japan, Indonesia, China and the Philippines nipping at its heels.
> The huge spike from 2013 in the Philippine data set is from the Haiyan/Yolanda Typhoon Crisis
Using cumulative numbers for the data subset for the period 2012-10 to 2015-09, and in terms of percentage of contributors per capita (that’s contributor per population/1000) Japan’s outstanding 3.92% is followed closely by the Philippines’ 3.37%. For perspective, the global leader is Germany scored a very, very impressive 52.44%!
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The crowd-sourced mapping activity held in Panglao, Bohol on 13th November is the fifth of a series of workshops being carried out by the Coalitions for Change (CfC), of the Coordinating Roads and Infrastructure Investment for Development (CR+ID) project meant to promote the mobilization and development of interest by formal organizations, local volunteer groups, and informal associations to identify and map their communities and other areas of interest using the OpenStreetMap platform. In this particular case, the activity is focused specifically in teaching the participants the rudiments of mapping establishments, infrastructure, and other points-of-interest (POI) that relate to the tourism industry.
Three weeks ago, near the end of August, The Asia Foundation(TAF)[0] organized an introductory workshop on crowd-sourced mapping in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental. Working with local partners: the Negros Oriental Planning and Development Office; the biker associations in Negros Oriental and the city of Dumaguete, they hope to introduce OpenStreetMap as a platform for participatory mapping activities to improve local maps, help determine infrastructure priorities, or asses the effectiveness of governance or projects.
The Dumaguete crowd-sourced mapping activity is a continuation of a series of introductory workshops carried out within the framework of the Coordinating Roads and Infrastructure Investment for Development (CR+ID) Project implemented by TAF-Philippines[1]. It is meant to promote the idea of mobilizing and nurturing local volunteer groups and informal associations to assist local governments in mapping their own communities using the OpenStreetMap platform.
I am thankful to TAF for the opportunity to engage other communities in Dumaguete, in particular, two of the biggest universities in the city, the Foundation University[2] and the Silliman University, College of Computer Studies[3] for a quick introduction to FOSS and OpenStreetMap.
Note: The original, and unabridged version of this message is a G+ post [0].
If you are monitoring #OpenStreetMap changesets from the #Philippines , you may have noticed a common changeset comment from week 25 of 2015 (15th-19th June or so)
The ResultMaps from neis-one.org report the following outcomes for the hashtag #osmfeu2015 [1] Information for #osmfeu2015 Number of OSM Contributors: 43 Number of Map Changes: 30,218 Total number of Changesets: 1,376
The FEU Institute of Technology [1] and the the Map the Philippines initiative of Ms. Celina Agaton [2] recently concluded a training workshop for FEU Tech affiliates (I.T. and engineering students and faculty) . Also with +Celina Agaton are some of AidData Summer Fellows who are in the Philippines to work along with Celina’s number of mapping initiatives. Amy, Daniella, Emily, Lu and Prabesh [4]. Some OSM-PH mappers participated as facilitators: +Feye Andal (@ feyeandal) +Julius Bañgate (@ jmbangate), +Dianne Bencito (@dichapabe), +Rally de Leon (@rally) and myself,@GOwin.
At the end of the event, we asked for voluntary participants for an anonymous survey and over-all, the participants reported to have had very positive learning experience from the workshop. More than half of the respondents expressed their interesting in doing more field mapping activities. So, if you guys are planning any mapping parties soon, you know where to find them.
And if you find new edits in your area, and they happen to be from the #osmfeu2015 guys, please be gentle with them. For now. :D
The small group discussions had been interesting for me, especially with those who are now considering #OpenSource data from #OpenStreetMap for their own academic or personal projects. I collected baseline contributor data from this workshop and hope to evaluate the effectiveness of the engagement a few months down the road. If any of you are interested in this kind of thing, let me know how we can work together.
Finally completed two brand new guides to the mobile mapping section of the learnosm.org:
These two are my go-to apps for mobile mapping in Android, a popular topic in the Philippines where most casual mappers have Android smart phones rather than dedicated GPS receivers.
The mobile mapping section is one of the outcomes of an training modules development sprint event in the Philippines back in 2014, as part of a collaborative trainer training initiative of ESSC, HOT and OSM-PH.
It’s a day short of a year since OSM-PHL got a letter from the Philippine Department of Education (DepEd) allowing us to incorporate some attributes of their school database into OpenStreetMap.
DepEd’s name for their project “maPaaralan” is a portmanteau of Map+Paaralan (Filipino word for school). I hope to revive this effort and see where we stand right now. The original discussions are here
I promised myself to contribute on more local projects next year, so I hope to make OSMaPaaralan as my first such project for 2015. See my OSMaPaaralan workplan
P.S. Hah! It appears this is actually my first diary entry, too. :D