Thanks Chad for announcing this initiative. For those interested at GWU Geography Department's initiative, check out this cool presentation: http://stateofthemap.us/session/osm-in-the-classroom/
Lots of ideas local universities here can adopt. @Chad, we have active mappers in Davao and also works with a university. Maybe they can respond to your requests. For General Santos, will ask local contacts (not Manny Pacquiao) and will revert to you once I get a response. On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Chad Blevins <cblev...@usaid.gov> wrote: > Hello mappers, > > > I wanted to send a note and let everyone know there will a significant > effort this Friday April 18th to map Davao City and General Santos. > Students from the George Washington University Geography department will be > working with USAID to replicate the great mapping work they did last fall in > Kathmandu. As it turns out, the students who were taught OSM for this > project were then able to used their new skills and helped map during the > Haiyan response. For this project we noticed there wasn’t much mapping > happening in these PH cities, and for grading purposes its better to start > with a clean area. Tasks have been created in the Tasking Manager with (GWU > Mapathon) following the title. Changesets “#GWU #USAID” will be used and > the class will focus on creating buildings, roads, and other infrastructure. > > > We are very interested in linking this work with local universities or > volunteers on the ground who could populate attributes. In Kathmandu we > worked with Kathmandu Living Labs who was able to add precise details about > all the schools and hospitals in the city. Please let us know if you have > ideas on volunteers who may be willing to do some field work. > > > Thank you, > > > > Chad Blevins > GeoCenter > U.S. Global Development Lab > USAID > 703-220-8513 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
