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Mapathon at the American Embassy

Posted by GOwin on 25 January 2016 in English. Last updated on 27 January 2016.

American Embassy Mapathon

Last Saturday, the U.S. Embassy in Manila hosted a workshop and mapathon to add data to Project 1129: Missing Maps: Leyte, Philippines. Organized by Celina Agaton/Map the Philippines and OpenStreetMap Philippines(OSMph) advocates. I took a few photos, too.

During the closing activity, the top new mappers were awarded with prizes, but only new mappers were taken in consideration, and I neglected to give due recognition to two “old” mappers who contributed significant number of edits in the area of interest during the mapathon, namely curran74 and Sea Tea Zen.

Edits made during American Embassy Mapathon

Cheers for these two awesome mappers. Their edits, combined, is responsible for one third of the total mapathon edits made in the Leyte task. Guys, I hope to see you both in the next mapathon. Do remind me that I owe you a bottle of beer each. ;)

Many thanks to the Mr. Allen Phelps and his team for hosting the mapathon at the American Embassy, including the refreshments, Celina Agaton for organizing the event, and the usual suspects from OpenStreetMap Philippines who were physically present - seav, Rally, schadow1, and Ge-Mapper, and two remote participants jmbangante (from chilly France) and maning (from warm Bengalore) for the support.

Should you be interested in the edits made during this particular mapathon, they are hosted on github as a geoJSON gist generated by Overpass Turbo.

For related posts, check your favorite social media stream for the #ManilaMapathon hashtag. Group photo above is snipped from Celina’s tweet about the event.

The spike in mapping activity over the weekend is attributed to this mapathon (from Pascal Neis’ Neis’ One country stats):

mappers online, 2016-01-23

mapping activity, 2016-01-23

Location: Barangay 667, Ermita, Fifth District, Manila, Capital District, Metro Manila, 1000, Philippines

Discussion

Comment from manings on 25 January 2016 at 14:54

Nice to see the next generation of mappers in the pic!

Comment from GOwin on 26 January 2016 at 07:53

Yep! I hope we can run a junior mapping activity over the summer. :)

Comment from mmd on 26 January 2016 at 14:31

Thanks for testing the Multiple user support for (user:…) and (uid:…) in your overpass turbo query. Hope you found it useful :)

Comment from GOwin on 27 January 2016 at 02:49

@mmd. Definitely convenient. ;) Thanks!

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