Dear everyone,
I am know collating my mental notes in preparation for the State of
the PH lightning talk for SOTM2011. And since this is a community
presentation, I might as well ask you on what we should be presenting.
The primary source materials of my talk is the wiki [0,1,2] and of
course, this list [3]. For sure the OSM-PH data has grown tremendously
in the the past 2 years. There a number of factors that may have
contributed to this growth. I would like to focus the presentation on
on 4 main points. Perhaps you can help me develop the discussion.
1. The osm-ph community. Who is the community? What characterize a
PH OSMer? How do we map? What are the innovative ways we do to
improve the map? Are the data users part of this community? Is the
talk-ph list and discussions here a representative sample of the osm-ph
community?
2. How do we use the data? Some sample of data useage we can
illustrate. Maybe a ph brewed mapping application? Or other ways you
have used the data? If there are any,
please provide a link or description and a screenshot.
3. Issues and concerns. Why are we growing in some areas but not
in others? How do you guage our relationship with other crowdsource
mapping initiative in the country (google mapmaker, roadguide.ph, wikimapia)?
4. The future. How do you see the state of PH data in a year or two?
What should be done to further improve and expand data coverage?
If you any thoughts, just send them here or as a PM. Thanks!
[0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines/Timeline
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Featured_images
[3] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, State of country talks are always well-received by the
attendees. You can always talk about mapping activities in the
Philippines. :-)
And this wiki page needs some love:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines/Timeline
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:31 PM, maning sambale
emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote:
FYI, I got my visa application approved for the SOTM 2011 conf. I
will start preparing for our (possible) OSM-PH talk. Any ideas what
we should discuss for this year in behalf of the osm-ph community?
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:18 PM, maning sambale
emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote:
FYI,
The old nominees for the past SOTM scholarships are: Maning, Eugene and
Murlwe
Maning and Eugene are interested to try their luck again this time.
Murlwe declined due to personal commitments. If there are others
interested to participate as an OSM-PH representative for this
scholarship, please tell us, as we prepare the nominations letter.
Of course you can nominate yourself and send them directly to the
scholarship organizers.
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Andre,
I agree that it's a bit tight. But I asked my officemate who went to
the US last year and he said that he had a rush US visa application
since he has a conference to attend in connection with his MBA. He got
his appointment schedule in 2 weeks and the processing took 1 week.
So maybe it's possible. :-)
Eugene
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner
an...@enthropia.com wrote:
Wow, when are they gonna decide
does anyone already have a US visa?
3 months to get a visa isnt the best timetable :)
On 3:59 AM, maning sambale wrote:
Hoping we can finally send a Filipino rep.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Coast, Hurricanehurricane.co...@mapquest.com
Date: Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:35 AM
Subject: [OSM-talk] Scholarship program to State of the Map 2011
To: t...@openstreetmap.orgt...@openstreetmap.org
The State of the Map Committee is excited to announce a program to
cover full travel and accommodations costs for mappers to attend State
of the Map 2011 in Denver, Colorado (United States). We’re seeking
nominations from the community for potential mappers.
We are seeking people from places where costs would prohibit
attendance, developing countries, and places that are “interesting”
geopolitically. The ideal candidates for funding are from countries
with a small OSM community, perhaps just a few mappers in total. They
have made a significant start at mapping their city, either through
imagery or with their own GPS, and are directly familiar with the
process of OSM. They may have started communicating among themselves,
and made plans and scoped out the process for their local district.
But, the community is nowhere near critical mass, and they need the
inspiration and support to take OSM to the next level.
We need to act fast! State of the Map is just over 3 and a half months
away, tickets and visas need to be arranged. In order to allow enough
time for all the arrangements, the nomination period will be short,
and ending at Sunday, June
