Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: Invitation to an inter-agency meeting to discuss availability, quality and accessibility of common and fundamental operational datasets in the Philippines (June 16th, 2014)
Hello everybody, This is quite delayed, but I would like to provide a short report of what happened during the DSWD forum. I was able to attend the afternoon session (the morning session was reserved for government agencies). Basically, the idea of the forum is to provide a venue for government agencies and international humanitarian/aid organizations to talk about the problem of sharing (mostly geospatial) data sets related to disaster risk reduction, mitigation, response, and management. There has been a lot of activity surroung relied efforts for Typhoon Haiyan but these are usually uncoordinated leading to duplication of effort and missed opportunities. There were attendees from various government agencies: DBM, DSWD, DOH, DPWH, DOTC, PNP, CAAP, OCD, PAGASA, and NFA. There was a representative from DILG who attended the morning session; unfortunately the representative couldn't attend in the afternoon. Sadly, there was no representative from NAMRIA. Aside from the local OpenStreetMap community (represented by me and Julius), we also had attendees from the the international humanitarian/aid organizations: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). During the morning session, the following points were drawn up in order to address the main issue: 1. Data accessibility needs to be addressed, possibly through another workshop. This includes the use of open machine-readable formats (not just PDFs, or worse, scanned documents) and open licenses. 2. Availability and completeness of data, especially the fundamental data sets, needs to be tackled. One possible solution is to turn to crowd-sourcing to help complete missing data. Furthermore, it was pointed out that many data sets are maintained by the LGUs (example, administrative boundaries) so the cooperation of DILG is vital. 3. There is the issue of a lack of geospatial data specifications and standards. NAMRIA is the lead agency in charge of this item, and an inter-governmental workshop may be needed. 4. A policy for data sharing needs to be formulated. The NDRRMC is the body assigned for this item. 5. There is a need to promote and standardize the use of PSGC for referring to LGUs in all of the data sets. The afternoon session was basically a discussion of other points related to the ones listed above. I am not aware of any next steps yet, but I do hope this would lead to good things, and especially, a lot of open data sets. ~Eugene On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:08 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Everyone, With permission from the organizers, OSM-PH community is invited to this event. They alloted 2-3 slots for OSM-PH. Program details and other documents here: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-2WZQ1DwK_xWHFHd1p6dGJQMG8usp=sharing -- Forwarded message -- From: Steeve Ebener steeve.ebe...@gaia-geosystems.org Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:28 AM Subject: Invitation to an inter-agency meeting to discuss availability, quality and accessibility of common and fundamental operational datasets in the Philippines (June 16th, 2014) Dear all, While waiting for the official invitation to reach you from DSWD, and apologizing in advance for such a short notice, I already wanted to share with you attached the agenda and paper for next week's meeting to discuss the availability, quality and accessibility of common and fundamental operational datasets to support disaster risk reduction and emergency management in the Philippines. This meeting, jointly organized by DSWD and the Strengthening Information Infrastructure for Emergency Management (SIIEM) project, will take place at the UP Asian Center. As per the attached agenda, the morning session will allow for Governmental institutions to comment on the attached paper and share their own data related experience and challenges faced during the response to typhoon Yolanda with the objectives to identify activities and resources that would be needed in order to unlock the main barriers to availability, quality and accessibility of these datasets. In the afternoon, the international community (donors, United Nations, Open Data Community,...) are invited to join the Governmental institutions to discuss how the activities and needs for resources identified during the morning could be covered. The morning session being limited to Governmental institutions, we would appreciate your confirmation of participation to the afternoon session by tomorrow COB. Please contact Mr. Lawrence Anthony S. Dimailig ( lasdimai...@dswd.gov.ph) or Ms. Vanity Joy B. Estremera ( vjbestrem...@dswd.gov.ph) at 931-8085 in this regards or for any other enquiries you might have. Looking forward to your Agency’s full support and active participation
Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: Invitation to an inter-agency meeting to discuss availability, quality and accessibility of common and fundamental operational datasets in the Philippines (June 16th, 2014)
Thanks for the update Eugene. Looking forward to what will happen next. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody, This is quite delayed, but I would like to provide a short report of what happened during the DSWD forum. I was able to attend the afternoon session (the morning session was reserved for government agencies). Basically, the idea of the forum is to provide a venue for government agencies and international humanitarian/aid organizations to talk about the problem of sharing (mostly geospatial) data sets related to disaster risk reduction, mitigation, response, and management. There has been a lot of activity surroung relied efforts for Typhoon Haiyan but these are usually uncoordinated leading to duplication of effort and missed opportunities. There were attendees from various government agencies: DBM, DSWD, DOH, DPWH, DOTC, PNP, CAAP, OCD, PAGASA, and NFA. There was a representative from DILG who attended the morning session; unfortunately the representative couldn't attend in the afternoon. Sadly, there was no representative from NAMRIA. Aside from the local OpenStreetMap community (represented by me and Julius), we also had attendees from the the international humanitarian/aid organizations: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). During the morning session, the following points were drawn up in order to address the main issue: 1. Data accessibility needs to be addressed, possibly through another workshop. This includes the use of open machine-readable formats (not just PDFs, or worse, scanned documents) and open licenses. 2. Availability and completeness of data, especially the fundamental data sets, needs to be tackled. One possible solution is to turn to crowd-sourcing to help complete missing data. Furthermore, it was pointed out that many data sets are maintained by the LGUs (example, administrative boundaries) so the cooperation of DILG is vital. 3. There is the issue of a lack of geospatial data specifications and standards. NAMRIA is the lead agency in charge of this item, and an inter-governmental workshop may be needed. 4. A policy for data sharing needs to be formulated. The NDRRMC is the body assigned for this item. 5. There is a need to promote and standardize the use of PSGC for referring to LGUs in all of the data sets. The afternoon session was basically a discussion of other points related to the ones listed above. I am not aware of any next steps yet, but I do hope this would lead to good things, and especially, a lot of open data sets. ~Eugene On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:08 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Everyone, With permission from the organizers, OSM-PH community is invited to this event. They alloted 2-3 slots for OSM-PH. Program details and other documents here: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-2WZQ1DwK_xWHFHd1p6dGJQMG8usp=sharing -- Forwarded message -- From: Steeve Ebener steeve.ebe...@gaia-geosystems.org Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:28 AM Subject: Invitation to an inter-agency meeting to discuss availability, quality and accessibility of common and fundamental operational datasets in the Philippines (June 16th, 2014) Dear all, While waiting for the official invitation to reach you from DSWD, and apologizing in advance for such a short notice, I already wanted to share with you attached the agenda and paper for next week's meeting to discuss the availability, quality and accessibility of common and fundamental operational datasets to support disaster risk reduction and emergency management in the Philippines. This meeting, jointly organized by DSWD and the Strengthening Information Infrastructure for Emergency Management (SIIEM) project, will take place at the UP Asian Center. As per the attached agenda, the morning session will allow for Governmental institutions to comment on the attached paper and share their own data related experience and challenges faced during the response to typhoon Yolanda with the objectives to identify activities and resources that would be needed in order to unlock the main barriers to availability, quality and accessibility of these datasets. In the afternoon, the international community (donors, United Nations, Open Data Community,...) are invited to join the Governmental institutions to discuss how the activities and needs for resources identified during the morning could be covered. The morning session being limited to Governmental institutions, we would appreciate your confirmation of participation to the afternoon session by tomorrow COB. Please contact Mr. Lawrence Anthony S. Dimailig ( lasdimai...@dswd.gov.ph) or Ms.
Re: [talk-ph] Mozilla Maker Festival (Sep 13–14, 2014)
This is cool event. Let's braisnstorm what we want to do/showcase. On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, The Mozilla Philippines community is organizing a Maker Festival on September 13–14, 2014 (Saturday and Sunday) at the Glorietta 5 Atrium in Makati. More information: http://makerfestival.ph/ I think this is a really good event for OSM Philippines community to participate in. We could demonstrate all of the things that people have made using OSM data and maps, and that this is all possible because people contribute to the project. Is anybody free on those dates and would want to participate? :-) Eugene ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ -- ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
Re: [talk-ph] talk-ph Digest, Vol 72, Issue 14
So is a drone weighing less than one pound and controlled by WiFi with a maximum range of 50 meters from the controller considered radio controlled? How about a toy helicopter using infra red with a range of maybe 20 meters? Like with the old gun laws - when does a toy become a gun or a gun become a toy. Until recently nobody could answer that. This new law is so ridiculous as to be unbelievable, even in the Philippines. It will certainly wipe out the model aircraft industry with many thousands of owners unable to use the models they spent large amounts of time and money on. Frank Woolf On Jul 28, 2014, at 9:56 AM, talk-ph-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: Message: 1 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 01:19:35 +0800 From: Mark Cupitt markcup...@gmail.com To: osm-ph talk-ph@openstreetmap.org Subject: [talk-ph] Drones Message-ID: CACYK9T=6q6fe7mrpbx-d976sn6j5p5lo-oluzvo_pino7an...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Drone memo bugs plane hobbyists*By Eric B. Apolonio* | Jul. 28, 2014 at 12:01am http://manilastandardtoday.com/2014/07/28/drone-memo-bugs-plane-hobbyists# Hundreds of hobbyists ?piloting? radio-controlled airplanes will have to comply with the memorandum of the Civil Aviation and Authority of the Philippines on unmanned aircraft vehicle or pay a fine of up to P500,000 per flight. Capt. Beda Badiola, CAAP-Assistant Director General and head of Flight Standard Inspectorate Service, said the regulation also covered amateur videographers or photographers, researchers, geodetic survey firms and broadcast media. Even before drone became a byword especially in the military, remote-controlled planes have been a popular ?sport? among closely-knit circles of enthusiasts who have built and modified kits on scale aircraft from World War II-era T-28 Trojan ?Tora Tora? and B-25 Mitchell to the turbine-powered F-15 Eagle and F-22 Raptor fighter jet models. In December last year, modellers held the first Philippine R/C Aircraft Congress at the Angeles City Flying Club in Magalang, Pampanga, where flight manuevers included aerobatics in a mini-version of an international air show. Under Memorandum Circular 21 series of 2014 dated June 26, 2014, drone owners or operators are required to register and secure a certification to operate from the agency. To be certified as UAV controller, an applicant must qualify for a radio operator?s certificate of proficiency; have been awarded a passed rating in an aviation license theory examination; have been awarded a passed rating in an instrument theory examination;completed a training course on the operation of the type of UAV that he/she posses to operate; have at least five hours experience operating UAVs outside controlled airspace. The applicant must also obtain at least one of three certifications: Flight crew license with a command instrument training; Military qualification equivalent to a license; or Air traffic control license. The directive likewise requires a detailed description of the UAV and purpose for its use. Under Philippine Civil Aviation Regulations, ?any operators found violating rules will be fined between P300,000 to P500,000 per unauthorized flight depending on the grave of violations?. The circular also banned flying UAVs over populated places, restricted corridors such as Malaca?an Palace, airports and no-fly zones of military camps. The CAAP defines a Large UAV as unmanned airship with an envelope capacity greater than 100 cubic meters; a Micro UAV as UAV with a gross weight of 100 grams or less; and Small UAV as neither a large UAV nor a micro UAV Regards Mark Cupitt ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
