maning, Any chance ESSC can host again? Or would you prefer somewhere else for a change?
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:31 PM, maning sambale <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear everyone, > > A research lab in Tokyo University in partnership with Georepublic is > doing a research project on transport routing for selected mega-cities > in South East Asia. > Using open source and open data (OSM), they are doing person trip > calculations and routing between districts or other small spatial > units. > > As part of their research, they want to involve the respective OSM > communities in updating and improving the road network within these > megacities. > The coverage for the Philippines is Metro Manila including the > adjacent towns/cities of Rizal, Laguna, Cavite and Bulacan. > > Initial priority is to reach a degree of "completeness" for the road > network. The group is proposing a series of armchair mapping events > for this. > > Rough plan are as follows: > - Organize a 2-day armchair mapping event in Metro Manila to trace > missing roads and improve "routability" of roads. Initially, turn > restrictions are not a priority > but we can decide if we want to add them including other features to > enhance the coverage. > - A parallel event in Japan will be hosted (using video a streaming or > other synchronous communication) so that Japanese mappers can also > help with the tracing. > - Food and other swags will be provided by TokyoUni and Georepublic. > - Date: end of March 2013, but still not final. > > Sending this to the list to solicit feedback and other ideas on the > planned event. > > Currently we are looking for volunteers to help in the preps (and join > the event) such as: > - scouting for venue > - swag designs (like t-shirt) > - planning and other logistical preps > > First event will be Metro Manila but this will be replicated to other > cities/countries in the region. > > -- > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph >
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