HOT-Philippines' PhilAWARE Project

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About the Project

Progress map of building footprints in the province of Pampanga during the PhilaAWARE Project. Pampanga is one of the project's pilot areas.

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Philippines, together with the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), Office of Civil Defense, PetaBencana.id, and USAID started the PhilAWARE Project last July 2019. PhilAWARE is a local installation of DisasterAWARE, a disaster risk reduction and integrated early warning and decision support system that also incorporates many data layers form OpenStreetMap. The project aims to collect the local critical lifeline infrastructures based on the PhilAWARE Data Model. The data will be utilized by the Office of Civil Defense as a hazard monitoring, early warning, and decision support tool.

The PhilAWARE Project has had four pilot areas during its 20-month run: Quezon City, Marikina City, Pasig City, and the whole province of Pampanga.

Part of the activities of the project included remote mapping in Pampanga, Quezon City, and Marikina City. Remote mapping and validation activities for Pampanga and Quezon City were completed with the help of volunteers, organizations, partners, and other stakeholders. Marikina City and Pasig City are still in progress. Aside from the remote mapping activities, collecting the critical lifeline infrastructure data from the ground in the municipalities in Pampanga was also a key task. Field operations were made possible through the support of the local government offices and volunteers in Pampanga despite the restrictions of COVID-19.

Mapping Team Structure

The mapping team is composed of 4 Junior Spatial Data Entry Staff (JSDE) supervised by 2 Data Validation Leads and a Field Coordinator. The structure for the team is shown below:

Mapping Methodology

PhilAWARE Data Model

For the tagging guidelines for the PhilAWARE Project, please refer to PhilAWARE Data Model. The data model was originally based on HOT Indonesia work related to InAWARE but was further modified based on the local context in the Philippines. The PhilAWARE Data Model was also discussed and consulted with the local OSM Philippines community.

Tools Utilized

  1. OSMTracker
  2. OpenMapKit
  3. ODKCollect

Mapping Process

  1. Remote Mapping and Validation (HOT Tasking Manager)
  2. Fieldwork
  3. Quality Assurance
  4. Final Validation

POI Collection

The field team collecting the POIs are accompanied by the volunteers from the municipality. Current practice is to visit the barangay halls first and ask the locations of the POIs to be collected. Volunteer knowledge of the area also helps. Field team gathers data using ODK Collect/OMK for survey and OSMTracker for photos.

Road Data Collection

ODK/OMK to pinpoint and collect road data in the National and Local Roads survey form. OSMTracker for photo capture. GPS for more accurate GPX tracks

Project Status/Timeline

Field Mapping Progress

Date Municipality Data collected Description
August 19 and 25-27, 2020 Guagua Points of Interests Collection of POIs in the municipality of Guagua
September 1-2, 2020 Bacolor Points of Interests Collection of POIs in the municipality of Bacolor
September 9-11 and 15, 2020 Santa Ana Points of Interests; Roads Collection of POIs and road data in the municipality of Santa Ana
September 22-25 and 29-30, 2020 Porac Points of Interests; Roads Collection of POIs and road data in the municipality of Porac
October 1-2 and 6-7, 2020 San Luis Points of Interests; Roads Collection of POIs and road data in the municipality of San Luis
October 13-16 and 20-23 and 27, 2020 Lubao Points of Interests; Roads Collection of POIs and road data in the municipality of Lubao
October 28-30, 2020 Arayat, Magalang Points of Interests Partial collection of POIs data in the municipality of Arayat and Magalang
November 24-26, 2020 Minalin Points of Interests; Roads Collection of POIs and road data in the municipality of Minalin
December 1-3, 2020 Santo Tomas Points of Interests; Roads Collection of POIs and road data in the municipality of Santo Tomas
December 9-10 and 14, 2020 Arayat Points of Interests; Roads Continuation of POIs and road data collection in the municipality of Arayat
December 15-18, 2020 Guagua, Porac Points of Interests; Roads Continuation of POIs and road data collection in the municipality of Guagua and Porac
January 12-15, 2021 Sasmuan Points of Interests; Roads Collection of POIs and road data in the municipality of Sasmuan
January 19-22 and 26-29, 2021 Mexico Points of Interests; Roads Collection of POIs and road data in the municipality of Sasmuan
February 2-4, 2021 Bacolor Roads Collection of road data in the municipality of Bacolor

Data Validator Selection

In order to speed up the validation process for the PhilAWARE project, the HOT Philippines team opened a validator selection application for local volunteers. Local applicants were encouraged to apply through this form online. he data validation leads of HOT Philippines are in charge of screening the applicants. The qualified applicants have:

  • an OSM account age of >6 months, with most recent OSM edits are within 6 months
  • prior mapping and/or validation experience on JOSM,
  • validated project/s on HOT Tasking Manager within the year,
  • more than 60% of the validated grids are valid (complete, accurate, consistent) will be prioritized.

Applicants who don’t qualify above but meet the following targets were also considered:

  • Buildings = 5,000
  • Roads = 20km
  • Waterways = 10km
  • Landuse = 500

As of 23 March 2020, the accepted validators are Coby Jacela and Vince Dy.

Training Schedules

Local Government Units

Local Government Unity (City/Municipality) Training Dates Participants Notes

Corporate Volunteers and Open Calls

Training Dates Event Name / Corporate Partners / Open Call Participants Notes

Communications

The team has produced and/or managed the following communications to reach out and make public the activities of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Philippines (HOT PH).

Official Social Media

Website Articles

Since July 2020, HOT Philippines has been publishing monthly articles on the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team's website.

Collaterals

Aside from crafting the public-facing image of HOT Philippines and the PhilAWARE project, Communications also supports the Field Mapping Team in their safety and identification on field by designing merchandise/swags to ensure that HOT branding is visible and our mappers are recognizable while doing field work. Below are some of the swags designed to help with this:

Designs of some of the swags for the PhilAWARE field mapping team

Communications also provides supplementary learning and awareness materials to volunteers and potential partners through traditional one-pagers or brochures:

Media Mentions

Project Output


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