Comments on: MapAction uses OpenStreetMap for Philippines Response

By: Brain Off » Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Deploying to Haiti :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:44:47 +0000

[...] first days after a disaster, all through volunteer professionals. They first used OSM in their work last year in the Philippines, and we have long wanted to learn from each in how open source and open data can be deployed in [...]

By: maning

maning — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:49:28 +0000

The webmap we started for the Storm Ondoy, is now being used by other volunteers for Typhoon Pepeng (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Parma_%282009%29) that hit the Northern part of the country.

http://osb.maps.jsintl.org/?zoom=10&lat=16.2917&lon=120.52038&layers=BT

By: mikel

mikel — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:31:27 +0000

Walking Papers will help. Maybe I’ll have a chance to deploy MapZen, which is open source http://tserdyuk.sandbox.cloudmade.com/mapzen/srcview/index.html

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:10:23 +0000

Congrats man. It’s great to see the progress you and others have been making on this over the years. Keep plugging away, the world thanks you.

My one request would be think about ways/tools to lower the barrier of entry for others to help. Simple is key.

thanks again.