Hi, We would like to thank everyone for joining the MappyHour/Missing Maps launch last Friday (Nov 7, 2014). 15 people joined us at ESSC and looking at the tasking manager [0], a few more participated remotely.
Special thanks to Nick Brown of YPDR [1] for sharing his insights on volunteering and being a digital humanitarian [2]. The work by YPDR in Bantayan Island is so amazing! 900 houses built (is it in OSM already?), relief assistance, livelihood and environmental conservation. Also to Eugene for launching the MissingMaps initiative [3]. As in most OSM-PH meetup, we didn't do much editing that night. Since we seldom do facetoface meetups, stories to share tend to pile up. :) Anyway some of us continued to map during the rest of the week [4]. I personally find it amusing how many areas lack the basic map detail even in areas where we did the Yolanda response last year. Task 720 [0] is now ~50% done, I invite everyone to do some more editing as this will be very critical to ARC/PRC's efforts in these areas. Photos here [5]. Thanks again! [0] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/720 [1] https://ypdr.org/ [2] https://prezi.com/idxotk69qh2a/disaster-response-20-digital-humanitarianism-and-volunte/ [3] http://www.missingmaps.org/ [4] http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-changesets?comment=missingmaps#12/10.8159/124.9563 [5] https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152785011867597.1073741837.345455082596&type=3 -- 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
