The document summarizes key information about mapping in the Philippines using OpenStreetMap (OSM). As of 2010, the OSM data for the Philippines contained over 197,000 roads and 2 million points of interest mapped by over 1,000 contributors. Crowdsourced mapping is popular in the Philippines and is used to map neighborhoods, towns, and entire islands. Outreach efforts are conducted to promote OSM mapping including organizing mapping parties and skillshares.
2. Filipino
Located along the Pacific
Ring of Fire and a tropical
climate which makes prone
to earthquakes and
typhoons.
An archipelago with 7,107
islands(?).
Capital city is Manila.
About 94 million people
with multiple ethnicities
and cultures.
Crowdsource mapping is
popular.
waypoints.ph
roadguide.ph
wikimapia
google mapmaker
3. PH data stats
Data as of 20110815
XML file size : 489 MB
197,617 ways
2,161,875 nodes
718 relations
~83,393 kilometers of highway=*
1,132 contributors (including 2 import
accounts)
80% of data by 18 mappers
next 10% by 25 mappers
last 10% the other 1,070 mappers
new users editing every 2 days
~1,000 km of new highway=* are
added every month (since Bing
imagery).
5. How do we map?
walkingpapers
DIY
NAVTEQ van
map sketching
6. What do we map?
Our neighborhoods,
our towns,
other people's towns,
whole cities,
whole islands
7. Outreach
OSM-PH local
chapter
website, FB page,
blogs
organize mapping
parties, skillshares and
talks
and
eat cakes too
8. Data imports
Many possible data were evaluated
and rejected.
Community guidelines
Planned imports should be announced
to the talk-ph list.
Imports should NEVER delete or get in
the way with local mapper's
contributions
Node density of imported
Public link should be provided to
POI in Makati anyone willing to evaluate the quality.
Community-consensus should be made
before imports.
Another announcement will be made
when consensus was achieved.
Another announcement after data
import.
Document the process and progress in
the wiki.
Naga city import
14. Using the data
Providing useful applications based on OSM
is our super secret recruitment scheme to convert
users to mappers
http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/osm_davao_mapping_party
15. Emerging issues
Too few mappers may lead to “volunteer
fatigue”.
More tools for easier ways to contribute.
Weird variants of “tagging for the renderer”.
Community privacy issues.
Indigenous peoples resources
Managing vandalism and copyrights.
A more local control and discussion on possible
copyrighted data in OSM
16. Future plans/activities
Collaborate with local developers, local
businesses and government agencies to use the
data beyond the osm.org map tiles.
Partnerships with schools.
More gpstogo units.
More imagery.
Merging of common interest with other
crowdsource groups
Our very own conference. Sponsors are
welcome. :)