Task Force: Crisis Mapping Philippines

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Permalink Reply by John Crowley on October 22, 2009 at 2:20pm

In the short term, it may be better to focus any Philippine efforts on the recovery from the typhoons. They need to develop better maps of the damage as well as to begin to predict (and get ahead) of the spread of diseases (particularly waterborne).

Anyone out there with some spare cycles to aid?

- John

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Meier on October 22, 2009 at 11:04pm

Ushahidi has been deployed to monitor the current disaster response:

http://www.cp-union.com/ondoy

Happy to put anyone in touch with the local team behind the deployment!

Agreed John, and the roll out for Typhoon Ondoy could pave the way for monitoring elections next year.

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Permalink Reply by Mikel Maron on October 24, 2009 at 2:28am

The OpenStreetMap community is very active in the Philippines. They've particularly stepped up in the typhoon disasters. OSM is being used by MapAction in maps for disaster responders.

http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/10/08/1495

I'm certain OSM Philippines will be eager to bring something to the table for the elections.

Question: Is there existing geographic data on polling places, districts, published or held _anywhere_? If so, we can working on opening it up into distributable formats. If not, data collection is a possibility.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Meier on October 24, 2009 at 5:16am

Thanks Mikel, very good to know that OSM and MapAction are both very active in the Philippines.

I'm in conversation with the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and CP-Union about the upcoming elections and will let you know what I find out re geographic data.

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Permalink Reply by Vicky Carreras Lloveras on October 27, 2009 at 4:20am

The Peace Portal is interested in monitoring the elections, we also have some local partners in The Philipines with whom we can work together. I also like very much the idea of collaborating with other crisismappers...

Regards, Vicky

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Meier on October 27, 2009 at 10:07am

Great news, Vicky!

Lets continue to use this forum to share information on the Philippines (both disasters/elections). If you know of other colleagues/partners who should be a part of this conversation, please ask them to join this group.

In the meantime, I'd like to echo Mikel's question: Is there existing geographic data on polling places, districts, published or held _anywhere_? If so, we can working on opening it up into distributable formats. If not, data collection is a possibility

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Permalink Reply by rick on October 27, 2009 at 10:47am

This is a good effort. We'll try to contribute. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Jerri Husch on October 27, 2009 at 8:42pm

Would be interesting to map the two layers of disasters and elections and then take those two "event" layers and superimpose them on "static baseline data" map layers, ie. infra-structure (roads, water, sanitation) cultural (language, religion, agricultural practice) etc. This would allow for interesting patterns to emerge.....

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Meier on November 7, 2009 at 11:31pm

From CrisisMappers member Patrick Florance regarding GIS data on the Philippines!

Here is all I turned up at first glance. I did find 3rd level admin geography. Other than that, not much really, mostly 1:1,000,000 DCW data. I can look some more:

https://gist.itos.uga.edu/index.asp

http://gis.naga.gov.ph/phildata/


National Mapping and Resource Information Agency (NAMRIA)
Lawton Avenue, Fort Andreas, Bonifacio, Makati, Metro Manila
Tel: +63 2 810 4831
Fax:+63 2 810 5468
E-mail: oss@namria.gov.ph
Web: http://www.namria.gov.ph/

National Statistics Office
http://www.census.gov.ph/


ACASIA
http://www.asian.gu.edu.au/price.html#thephil
Not sure I'd buy this

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Permalink Reply by Maning Sambale on December 4, 2009 at 7:21am

I am Maning Sambale of Openstreetmap Philippines. I am interested in contributing on this Philippine election mapping efforts. This is the very first time the Philippines will implement an automated computer-based election. Just this month we had a very tragic election-related violence.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20091204-2400...

The current free dataset I know of is via Openstreetmap. If there is anything I can start looking into, just send me message at emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Meier on December 4, 2009 at 7:34am

Many thanks Maning, and great to have you on board!

Our colleagues at CP-Union set up an Ushahidi platform for election monitoring in response to the tragic election-related violence that just happened.

http://www.votereportph.org

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Permalink Reply by Maning Sambale on December 4, 2009 at 7:41am

Excellent! The site is unresponsive at the moment. I know the CPU guys and we had brief discussions on collecting basemap data via openstreetmap.

I'll contact them via mail. Is this the right forum to update everyone on the matter?

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