Dear OSM community,
First of all congratulation and thank you for the wonderful work you has done over the past months to improve the layers over the Regions affected by typhoon Yolanda. In view of the value added brought by your work, and the attention it has raised, I was wondering if there is any plan for the government of the Philippines to be more proactive in collaborating with you guys on integrating the OSM dataset into the governmental one. I am primarily thinking about the road and hydrographic network but this could very much be extended to other layers as well. I am asking this because I am currently involved a project aiming at improving the quality, availability and accessibility of core geospatial datasets for emergency management and disaster risk reduction and I see the connection between the government and the Open Data community as key towards achieving this objective. We have started working on two countries (The Philippines and Morocco) and any insight on the above would therefore be much appreciated. I would be happy sharing information about the project if needed. Thanks in advance and keep the great work! Steeve Steeve Ebener, Ph.D. CEO Gaia GeoSystems P.O. Box 795 - P.C. 114, Muscat - Oman cell: +968 952 57 526 email: <mailto:steeve.ebe...@gaia-geosystems.org> steeve.ebe...@gaia-geosystems.org web: <http://www.gaia-geosystems.org/> www.gaia-geosystems.org Twitter: @GaiaGeosystems, @SIIEMtweets LinkedIn: <http://www.linkedin.com/in/steeveebener> http://www.linkedin.com/in/steeveebener logo_emails_72One Planet, One System P Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. Thank you
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