After many months of trying to coax a municipal disaster agency in the #Philippines to share their #drone imagery available to the public, they're starting to upload some to #OpenAerialMap, making fresh imagery available for the local #OpenStreetMap community. 🎉

Now, it's #MapaTime! 😄

Do you enjoy mapping local #PublicTransport features in #OpenStreetMap?

Check out this thematic app to help make it much easier for most folks: https://openstop.app

The app looks very friendly, and mapping these features will probably
be interesting and relevant for many @pinoy|s even if they aren't @osm contributors yet.

I guess we have a potential theme for the next #MapaTime thing. 😆

It's funny how a random conversation about #bicycle parking spots with strangers eventually turned into our first f2f #MapaTime activity in the #Philippines since the lockdowns of 2020. 😀 🗺️

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Thank you to our #WeMap #Mapatime participants last night who validated buildings in Lupang Arenda, Taytay, RIZ, to assist a barangay-based land tenureship effort.

An additional 10% of the project was validated!

If you missed it, watch it on http://youtu.be/XJPRwfW5pWA

Last night's #WeMap session had ~37 participants not just from the #Philippines but also folks from#Australia, #Mexico and #NewZealand.

Thank you to everyone who made the session possible, especially those who contributed during #MapaTime and validated data in #Pampanga, for the local #HOTOSM #MAPampanga campaign to create better #OpenData for disaster preparedness.

Dacal pung salamat (thank you) to all participants, volunteers, and crew from the local #OSMph and other map-py friends

Last month, contributors to #OpenStreetMap in the Philippines made 14,130 map changes, a 21% drop from February surge due to #Taal2020Eruption activities.

Despite that, number is above the PHL average for 2019.

The drop in contributors (still surprisingly high) and the map changes is attributable to the #covid19PH response in the country.

Tonight, 1 Apr, Wed, 19:30 (UTC +8) the local OSM community is hosting #MapaTime as #weMap for #MAPampanga. Full details here: is.gd/dox14p

Interesting tool for #MapaTime mapathons: running #JOSM on flash drives (for Windows)

Available with an MIT license from: mapathon-cz.gitlab.io/josm-on-flash

A convenient way to demo the editor to power users. This way, you skip the steps for downloading and installing JOSM during the on-boarding process on your next mapathon.

Check out the project repo: https://gitlab.com/mapathon-cz/josm-on-flash

After last week's full house, with #MapaTime participants from as far north as Baguio, and down south as Australia, we invite you again this Wed, 1 Apr, 19:30 as #WeMap the culinary capital of the #Philippines, to support the #MAPampanga campaign of #HOTOSMphilippines

No experience is required. All you need is a computer, a mouse, a reliable internet, and the heart of a humanitarian.

The free #webinar covers the iD editor, and a mapathon thereafter.

For details, visit: is.gd/dox14p

Tonight #wemap for healthcare in the #Philippines on #OpenStreetMap , thru the #MapaGaling initiative of @[email protected] by "Pastor" @[email protected]

Telecon start at 7:30 p.m. (PST), URL is http://8x8.vc/mapatime/mapagaling

Wednesdays #MapaTime is when #wemap together.
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