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Missing Roads 2018-Q4 diary entry #53

Closed govvin closed 6 years ago

govvin commented 6 years ago

Finding Nemo Missing Roads in the Philippines

Road data are essential for most maps, whether they're used for tourism, navigation, or business - but especially critical in emergency response. Our project goal is to validate and map the road network that connect settlements and residential areas for the country, and make this open data available to all through OpenStreetMap.

Together with contributors from the local community, including the enthusiastic volunteers of the PUPSJ CWTS++ program, we've worked on some regions in the past:

Area Status
Central Visayas Complete. 8/31
Zamboanga Peninsula Complete. 9/4
Western Visayas Complete. 9/19
Northern Mindanao 100%. 10/11
Central Luzon 11%
Eastern Visayas Complete. 9/5
Ilocos 5%
Soccskargen Complete. 10/1
Cagayan Valley 59%
Mimaropa Complete
Bicol Complete
Davao Complete. 9/5
Calabarzon Complete

Utilzing the ImproveOSM tools, contributors were able to validate, identify, and map, the potential missing roads in the countyr some months back, with technical and logistical support from Kaart.

image The Philippines, compared to neighboring countries visualized from ImproveOSM's iD editor.

We've recently updated our GIS analysis of available data, and refreshed our Philippine tasks :

image We're also introducing a new validation approach for spotting potential missing roads and make them easier for beginners and experienced mappers alike, regardless whether they're using iD or JOSM.

With this effort, we hope to continue improving our open map data, working along-side contributors from various local communities.

image Philippine road data increase is usually <2%. Between July and October, we contributed to bumping this up by >3%

Start mapping the missing roads of your favorite neighborhood, or your home town - or surprise yourself by allowing the tasking manager to pick a task for you randomly. Head over to the HOT Tasking Manager, or use this short link to jump to our project: https://pygy.co/PHroads

govvin commented 6 years ago

Community email re task: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2018-November/006323.html

Posted, 5/11: Full version: https://osm.org/user/GOwin/diary/46842 Toot: https://mstdn.io/@GOwin/101017101137324332

Related to #50 , #51 , #52