The Asia Foundation OpenStreetMap Workshop :: Butuan City, Caraga, Mindanao, PH
Posted by GOwin on 26 January 2016 in English.About
Early this month, Butuan City was again the site for a crowd-sourced mapping workshop using OpenStreetMap (OSM), part of the Coordinating Roads and Infrastructure Investment for Development (CR+ID) initiative for industry mapping series run by The Asia Foundation.
The Industry Mapping Workshop proper was held in Y Hotel, Butuan City, on 13th-15th January, while the OpenStreetMap workshop track started in the afternoon of the 14th. This OSM workshop is the sixth of a series of workshops being carried out by the Coalitions for Change (CfC), of the CR+ID project meant to familiarize participants with the OSM platform, and other Open Source mapping technologies they can utilize in their respective communities. It is also meant to promote the development of interest by local government authorities, formal organizations, local volunteer groups, and informal associations to map their communities and other areas of interest using the OpenStreetMap platform. In this particular case, the activity is focused specifically in teaching the participants the rudiments of mapping establishments, infrastructure, and other points-of-interest (POI) that relate to the tourism industry.
OpenStreetMap Workshop
The workshop series is an introduction to the OpenStreetMap platform, and builds upon the participants prior knowledge about mapping. Many of the participants already have working knowledge of geomatics and geographic information systems.
Participants were also introduced in the use of Smartphones and the OsmAnd application for mobile field data collection. Early next morning, participants were give an opportunity to exercise their field data collection skills in downtown Butuan. The late morning was spent on editing and processing the field data, and sharing their learning experience.
Activity results
An Overpass-Turbo query reports the following changes by the participants during the workshop day itself: nodes: 219, ways: 18. The edits are mostly in downtown Butuan, where new POIs had been added to the local map during field work. Some mappers, made updates in their own neighborhoods, as well.
Kudos to the new mappers. I’m looking forward to seeing more editing activity from that area of Mindanao.
Discussion
Comment from Glassman on 26 January 2016 at 07:06
Nice work! Great to see all that activity.
If anyone has an iPhone, have them check out GoMap!! While I don’t have an iPhone, I’ve used the app. It’s easy to learn and use. Much like iD.
Clifford AKA Glassman
Seattle, WA, USA
Comment from GOwin on 26 January 2016 at 07:22
Thank you, Clifford. I’ll make sure to remember that.
I don’t have an iOS device myself but the reason we also recommend OsmAnd, is because it shares many of the features of the Android version. I think their goal is to eventually have both platforms share the same features.
I’ll definitely have to ask someone to try this out. Thanks!