This document provides information about OpenStreetMap (OSM), a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. It highlights that OSM now has over a million users from different backgrounds who have made over 4 billion map edits. The document also describes how OSM uses free and open-source software, formats, and data to allow open collaboration on mapping. Several examples are given of how OSM was used to map areas in the Philippines impacted by Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda in 2013, with over 1,500 volunteers from 82 countries making changes based on satellite imagery. Contact information is also provided for getting involved with the OSM community in the Philippines.
38. IOM staff showing the large OpenStreetMap
posters in the DSWD Operations Center in
Tacloban Airport. Photo by Joe Lowry
http://www.flickr.com/photos/esambale/10937514315/
41. State of the Map Philippines 2013
December 14-15, 2013
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines/Events/sotm-ph-2013
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43. November 11, 2009
dear maning,
we are two totally blind guys who are probably the first users of
gps technology here in the philippines.
we already travelled from commonwealth to binondo using our gps
receivers and our talking cellphones and we arrived safely.
that's why we would like to meet with you so we can ask technical
info from you to improve our navigating.
...
kindly honor our request because we would like also to be active
contributors to what you are doing in mapping the philippines, well
perhaps to start a new map department for blind travelers.
i typed this letter using a screenreader with speech software,
forgive the non capitalization of beginning letters so i can type
fast to go with my flow of thought.
god bless you and thank you in advance for your precious time with
us.
sincerely,
dick
44. March 8, 2010
dear manig,
i went back to cabagan, isabela after 15 years and got nostalgic
marking the pois on a motorbike with cousin philip!
i live ecopark and did gps marking too.
quite a good coverage, i think, but need to go back for some that i
missed.
hope this will benefit gps users.
thank you.
dick
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45. Maning Sambale
Maptivist, OSGeo Charter Member,
OSM-PH Volunteer, Environmental Science
for Social Change
emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com
Eugene Alvin Villar
Free Culture Movement slides, 2013
OSM-PH Volunteer
Wikipedia Contributor
