OpenStreetMap
So today the 16th day of September 2018, I mapped the Cagayan and Batanes areas of Philippines. I contributed in mapping more than 80 buildings to support the local mappers and also to celebrate my friend’s birthday lol. Though I’m still mapping, lemme see how many more buildings I can help in mapping in the next few hours. Currently mapping this area
Before I start my story of how I got to know of OSM and how the UniqueMappesTeam (UMT) got started, let me first of all say what OSM is and a little about what it does…….sit tight. OSM is an acronym for OpenStreetMap; it’s an online map of the world that’s created and contributed to by people like you and me (both young & old, male & female). Interestingly, it’s an open sourced which operates under an open license. Meaning it’s accessible to all Free-Of-Charge and anyone can contribute to it. ##What it does…. Since it’s a collaborative project to create free editable map of the world, it means that it allows anyone with a PC and internet access to trace both roads, buildings and rivers (where available) of anywhere in the world. And this data is made available to the Red Cross, local and international disaster response agencies and every other end-users of Geo-spatial data.