I joined the Typhoon Ondoy Google Groups ( http://groups.google.com/group/typhoonondoy) and brought up the OSB map and the use of OSM tiles as an alternative layer for areas where Google Maps is poor (like Laguna).
Anyway, check out this interface they developed incorporating OSM Mapnik tiles as another layer to the default Google Maps tiles. http://www.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://sugo-katta.appspot.com/neoMapplet35.xml The discussion there is centering towards aggregating all the disparate data into a unified repository of sorts. This will include rescue, relief, rehabilitation, and rebuilding data. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Mikel Maron <mikel_ma...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Received the message below from MapAction .. major kudos, plus requests for > data, if there's any possibility of collecting it. > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ---- > From: Andrew Smith > Subject: RE: Philippines > > Hi Mikel, > > Thanks for your email. > > The OSM data has been fantastic - please pass on our congratulations and > thanks to the OSM Philippines team. > > There is a big need for roads data outside Metro Manila, in particularly in > Region III and Region I. The Provinces of La Union, Pangasinan, Tarlac and > Pampanga are the worst hit by Pepeng/Parma. > > Additionally there is the need for the current road status throughout all > of > the above areas, all the western edge of Laguna De May (see the AOI map > attached - this was made for a different purpose, but suffices for this.) > > There is GIS officer from WFP/Logs Cluster arriving soon, so I will mention > your interest and OSM PH's efforts to them. Longer term they would be the > people on the international side of thing who will be wanting to know about > roads. > > If you've not already found it, you may be interested in the Typhoon Ondy > Google Group: > http://www.google.com/landing/typhoon-ondoy.html > > We have been in contact with them. They have setup a crowd-source mapping > effort with some success - helped by the fact that they have some Google > alumni amongst their numbers, meaning that they where for a while on the > www.google.com.ph landing page. There are quite a lot of other crowd > source > efforts about and they are now attempting to aggregate them. They have been > after roads and road status data recently. I'd recommend you and/or OSM PH > introducing themselves on that list. > > The boundaries are a definite no I'm afraid. This was given to us by > GeoData > (www.geodata.com.ph) the local ESRI supplier - under a use but don't share > arrangement. The other publicly available boundary data was a bit of a mess > I'm afraid. > > Best wishes, > Andy > > Andy Smith - Philippines Field Team > MapAction (www.mapaction.org) > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com
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