The document summarizes key information about mapping in the Philippines using OpenStreetMap (OSM). As of 2010, the OSM data for the Philippines contained over 197,000 roads and 2 million points of interest mapped by over 1,000 contributors. Crowdsourced mapping is popular in the Philippines and is used to map neighborhoods, towns, and entire islands. Outreach efforts are conducted to promote OSM mapping including organizing mapping parties and skillshares.

1. State of the Philippine Map
SOTM 2008
SOTM 2010

2. Filipino
Located along the Pacific
Ring of Fire and a tropical
climate which makes prone
to earthquakes and
typhoons.
An archipelago with 7,107
islands(?).
Capital city is Manila.
About 94 million people
with multiple ethnicities
and cultures.
Crowdsource mapping is
popular.

waypoints.ph

roadguide.ph

wikimapia

google mapmaker

3. PH data stats
Data as of 20110815
XML file size : 489 MB
 197,617 ways
 2,161,875 nodes
 718 relations
~83,393 kilometers of highway=*
1,132 contributors (including 2 import
accounts)
 80% of data by 18 mappers
 next 10% by 25 mappers
 last 10% the other 1,070 mappers
 new users editing every 2 days
 ~1,000 km of new highway=* are
added every month (since Bing
imagery).

4. How do we map?

5. How do we map?
walkingpapers
DIY
NAVTEQ van
map sketching

6. What do we map?
Our neighborhoods,
our towns,
other people's towns,
whole cities,
whole islands

7. Outreach
OSM-PH local
chapter
website, FB page,
blogs
organize mapping
parties, skillshares and
talks
and
eat cakes too

8. Data imports
Many possible data were evaluated
and rejected.
Community guidelines

Planned imports should be announced
to the talk-ph list.

Imports should NEVER delete or get in
the way with local mapper's
contributions
Node density of imported 
Public link should be provided to
POI in Makati anyone willing to evaluate the quality.

Community-consensus should be made
before imports.

Another announcement will be made
when consensus was achieved.

Another announcement after data
import.

Document the process and progress in
the wiki.
Naga city import

9. Supporting the mappers
Handouts, flyers, 5-min videos
GPStoGo program

10. Supporting the mappers
Some QA Tools
Saw-tooth
coastline repair
Custom garmin maps

11. Supporting the mappers
Imagery imports
Imagery donations
DIY aerial imagery
(Spot and DigitalGlobe)

12. Using the data
Openstreetmap.org.ph a simple interface for creating html map embeds

13. Using the data

14. Using the data
Providing useful applications based on OSM
is our super secret recruitment scheme to convert
users to mappers
http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/osm_davao_mapping_party

15. Emerging issues

Too few mappers may lead to “volunteer
fatigue”.

More tools for easier ways to contribute.

Weird variants of “tagging for the renderer”.

Community privacy issues.

Indigenous peoples resources

Managing vandalism and copyrights.

A more local control and discussion on possible
copyrighted data in OSM

16. Future plans/activities

Collaborate with local developers, local
businesses and government agencies to use the
data beyond the osm.org map tiles.

Partnerships with schools.

More gpstogo units.

More imagery.

Merging of common interest with other
crowdsource groups

Our very own conference. Sponsors are
welcome. :)

17. Thank you to
Yahoo! Maps
(2006-2011)

18. References

http://openstreetmap.org/

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/
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http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines/Timeline

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines
/Featured_images
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http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines
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http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/
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http://www.openstreetmap.org

http://epsg4253.wordpress.com
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https://www.facebook.com/OSMPH