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HOT-Philippines started the PhilAWARE Project last July 2019 which 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.
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Part of the activities of the project included remote mapping in the province of Pampanga and Quezon City. Remote mapping and validation activities for both areas have been completed with the help of volunteers, organizations, partners, and other stakeholders.
Part of the activities of the project included remote mapping in the province of Pampanga and the municipalities of 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 while Marikina City is still in progress.
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Aside from the remote mapping activities, we also began collecting the <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PhilAWARE_Data_Model" target="_blank">critical lifeline infrastructure data</a> from the ground in the municipalities of Pampanga. Our field operations was made possible through the support of the local government offices and volunteers in Pampanga despite the restrictions of COVID-19.
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<h3>Mapping in a Pandemic</h3>
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The pandemic has a large impact on our remote and field operations. Our team has encountered a lot of challenges such as postponing and slowing down of field mapping activities because of sudden lockdowns and surge of active COVID cases, and resigning staff due to COVID-19 safety threat but we were still able to pull them through. <i>[We were also able to make a <a href="https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/programme/session/pnm200202" target="_blank">documentary</a> on how COVID-19 remapped the reality and presented them during the 2nd day of <a href="https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/" target="_blank">Pista Ng Mapa</a>. Video available online soon.]</i>
The pandemic has a large impact on our remote and field mapping operations. Our team has encountered a lot of challenges such as postponing and slowing down of field mapping activities because of sudden lockdowns and surge of active COVID cases, resigning staff due to COVID-19 safety threat, as well as self-isolation due to experiencing COVID-19 symptoms but we were still able to pull them through. <i>[We were also able to make a <a href="https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/programme/session/pnm200202" target="_blank">documentary</a> on how COVID-19 remapped the reality and presented them during the 2nd day of <a href="https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/" target="_blank">Pista Ng Mapa</a>. Video available online soon.]</i>
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