Being in the session of CWTS #MapaTime is very productive since we really used all the time to do the activities given to us.We learned so much starting from the purpose of this session down to the basics like, how does Open Street Map operate and what are the uses of the tools present in the particular activities; point, line, area and even the different views of seeing the area we are working on.

My favourite activities are the editing itself since it is the essence of the session and knowing that I had contributed on this activity gives me privileged to be one of the 1st batch in PUPSJ come from different department. If I were given a chance to participate/ volunteer again in this program I’ll whole-heartedly accept it. It is my opportunity to share the knowledge I have acquired in from this session. Maybe the Internet connection is the only thing that needs improvement.

All in all, this #MapaTime session not only taught us lessons in the subject itself but it also taught us how to value the those people we are working on.

Thank you for the experience.

In this 4 Mapa time sessions we were first taught the basics of mappings which is the line, point and area which are used to create roads and buildings. We were taught to validate roads and buildings in their correction. It was a fun experience even though we only had 4 sessions my favorite activity was the last sessions which is adding and fixing schools. The things to improve are the internet connections and more computer so that everyone could experience it.

CWTS #MapaTime sessions had been productive. Primarily, we were taught about the basics of mapping. Without those things, we wouldn’t be able to perform several tasks during the succeeding sessions. Firstly, having an educator whose expertise is really in this field contributed a lot in our learning. Second, the place is conducive for our learning as well. Third, the entire class is active when it comes to the tasks that’s why communication was easy. Moreover, this field was new for me. However, as time went by, I actually loved the process and it was actually amusing to locate different buildings, areas, schools, etc. I also had fun fixing roads, most especially that it’s new for me. Since we no longer have another session, we are highly encouraged to become volunteers in the future. If I were asked if would i volunteer, I’m quite sure I want. But, since I am anticipating for a more hectic schedule, it would be a hindrance for me to actually be part of the volunteers. As an Accountancy student, I never expected myself to easily decipher the technical terms since my course is not in line in this field. Nonetheless, increased level of curiosity helped me in pushing myself to do more and at the extent of my limits. To sum up everything else, the entire four sessions imparted great amount of knowledge with regards to this field which is new for me.

The four sessions with CWTS #MapaTime is so productive. It was a great time to experience this kind of task or work. I have learned a lot in this MapaTime sessions. I’ve learned that there is much more to see in the open street map than the google map or waze. And also OpenStreetmap is more helpul and detailed than other maps.In this sessions we are able to experience to add road in siquijor province and to validate others tasks. My favorite activity is to determine pedestrian lanes for the people to know that there is crosswalk in a certain location.

I would love to be a volunteer in the future sessions because I want to learn more about mapping and to share my knowledge to other people. Also I want to help the community. I think if there is something to be improve, that is the internet connection. Because it is hard to finish task if there’s a problem in connection.

I am grateful to those who help me in this activity. Especially to Mr Erwin Olario and to the student volunteers.

I am a BSA student from Polytechnic University of the Philippines San Juan Campus.I want to thank our instructor for this activity because I see how passionate he is in sharing his knowledge about mapping to us, also to those student-volunteer who have patience in teaching and answering our inquiries.

Honestly, I hate technology because I find it hard and really confusing. However, during this 4 weeks activity I realized the importance of learning and gaining knowledge about technology specially in using computer. In this activity I learn how to map and it’s significance for our subject which is Civil Welfare Service Training. Some activities are quiet confusing but still it’s interesting. I consider this experience as one of the best for me because for sure I won’t forget it till I grow old.

I am willing to volunteer because I also want to share my knowledge to other students and I want to learn more about mapping.

This session is a very relevant to make us more productive as a student, for as accountancy student we should not just focus our knowledge on theories and numbers but also for the practical learning that can be used in a modern technology. I learned a lot like locating the roads and naming those buildings. Most importantly, the adding of schools in the Philippines which leads me to add the school where I graduated from. My most favourite activity is the adding of school, it is more exciting and there were a lot to be done in this activity. I would like to volunteer in the future session for me to be able to broaden my knowledge and hone my skills in technology.

Actually, I don’t know what to improve because totally it is amazing and I learned from it very well. I would like you to know that I am very thankful to be part of this activity for it opened my eyes on how technology really works and how it is important in the modern days.

Daghang salamat sa tanang nag tabang ug nagtudlo nako sa pag himo sini nga butang. Madamo gid nga salamat grabi gid ya kalipay ko iya kay pirti ka importante sa akon nga makatuon sini nga mga butang. Padayon sa paglambo kag pag tudlo sa mga kabataan pareho nako.

For the past four weeks i have attended the CWTS #MapaTime sessions and i really enjoyed it. I may not be a IT major but I surely learned and enjoyed tis experience. at first I may have questioned why i’m here and how is this related to my subject but as the sessions go on I was really happy of what we are doing. Although our biggest enemy was the poor internet connection that kind of hinder and slowed us down with the process but despite the struggle we have accomplished and successfully finished the tasks. Even though our sessions starts at 7:30 AM and its a struggle to wake up that early I still come here and do the tasks because its really fun and enjoyable. I’m thankful to our #mapatime instructor and CWTS professor for introducing to us the mapping. We are very much happy that we have helped in identifying roads and buildings and schools even though we are not that good but still helped people find their way to their destination.

The four sessions we had in CWTS taught us a lot of things, especially in mapping.

I’ve learned that, there are so much more learnings which really helped us. One of these are, we were tasked to find roads and fix it according to process. Moreover, we were able to validate other people’s tasks if what they did was accurate. At first, i really had no idea and i am not fond doing this kind of thing. My favorite activity is putting a road in possible places in Siquijor Province, i had a great time doing that because, i had to critic every part of the map.

I would love to be a volunteer someday or in the future sessions because i would like to share all the knowledge and skills that I had learned. If there is something to be improve, is the internet connection (joke), to be frank, we were having a hard time and having a lack of time since the connection was lost.

I would like to know more about mapping; by determinning other factors like finding easily the areas which is compliment to the map.

Above anything else, the four sessions has molded us and open up our minds with this kind of thing.

Thank you for this program i gain knowledge on how to use a mapillary, mapatime, and openstreetmap. Natutunan ko rin kung pano mag identify ng mga school, road and so on. Also my favorite activity is Openstreetmap and Mapillary. I don’t think if i volunteer in future sessions because there’s a lot to do on other subject and also the schedule but i try my best to attend in this program again. I suggest na pagtuunan ng pansin yung mga bagong batch yun lng po thank you again for this program and also i enjoy this program.

This session is very productive for us as an Accountancy students even though we are not an IT students because this help us to be more aware of our surroundings and be more knowledgeable about the map how we should properly use it since map today are more advance. I would like to thank our professor in this sessions and to the KUYAS who help us when we find mapping difficult sometimes. I’ve learned that there are a lot of infrastructures and road that are unidentified. For the improvement of the session, I wish we had more computers working and a faster wifi.

Honestly, I enjoyed the four sessions we had and I find it really interesting especially the game “Mapillary”. And lastly, I would love to learned about more mapping a more advance of it and to be part of one of the volunteer since some of the volunteers tells us what is good about to be a part of it. I hope you will teach more students. My deepest gratitude to this team and godbless you all.

-BSA 1-1

In this session i learned a lot of things i enjoy to learned and listen about this session. Ang kinaganda pa dito ay hindi lang sa nakikinig kami sa discussion but also we learned and we doing what he though to us and also if didn’t know someone will guide us. I learned to map a building and to determine what road.

I have learned in this few past sessions is the importance of mapping its not just mapping the buildings or roads i was able to see the plains of different places and it was fun. It was a fun ride and even i’m not going to be graded for this subject I can say that it was all worth and I would love to volunteer in the future sessions to enhance my communication skills and learn more. I would like to see more and to gain more. And my fav act for this is the searching of elem schools because i know how important it is to know where the directions are when there is a storm or natural hazards in the area. I know this just a short diary but hope you felt my gratitude once you read this. Once again Thank you for the knowledge you have given me and I wish to volunteer next time.

Masaya at nakakaenjoy kase maraming natutunan tungkol sa mapping halimbawa na lang ng pagdedetermine ng road at paggawa ng mga buildings at iba pa syempre nung una medyo nahirapan ako pero nung nagtagal nasanay na. May pagkakataon na parang nakakatamad gumawa dahil sa bagal ng connection pero okay lang naman kasi nakakagawa naman ng maayos kahit unti may naitutulong naman kahit papaano

THANK YOU FOR THE NEW LEARNINGS AND OPPORTUNITIES GODBLESS

It was a fun learning experience. This session was a good opportunity to learn a wide variety of skills. In the four sessions we’ve had, I had learned to edit points, lines, and areas properly to produce information beneficial not only to us but also especially to organizations that need this information. I’ve learned to identify walking lanes, traffic lights, and a lot of other objects just by using images alone.

The activity that I enjoyed the most was mapping and validating information at Siquijor. At first I was doing the wrong thing because I was validating the map instead of mapping it. Eventually I figured it out what I was doing wrong and managed to catch up.

If I would complain about anything during this sessions then it would be about how horrible the wifi is during sometimes. Everything else was fun like how Sir Erwin taught and presented his intro about google is something that should be less relied on by people because it lacks a lot of information about the map and a lot more. I’m also thankful to the other people who also helped me during this session like Kuya Ron who would constantly answer our questions.

ALAMATS! SA MGA TUMULONG SA AMIN MATUTO ITO!

PUPSJCWTS

PUPSJCWTS #MapaTime #BSA1-1 opens another door for us to experience such one of the kind activity that was really new and helpful for everyone. Mapping is not just an activity where you can locate a certain places on its specific location on the globe but you can also see those buildings that are available on that certain area such as the houses, schools, playgrounds etc. On this activity one of my favourite to do is to identify those roads, buildings areas etc. present on a certain location because it involves critical thinking and enhance your understanding so that you can locate a right and specific buildings, areas, roads etc. mapping can be one of the basis or a guide if there is a certain phenomenon occur on your place it will help you vacate easily onto a safer place because it is more specific and makes you aware which way you can also use to go there.

i really had fun doing this because never did i lose my interest in the past 4 weeks. the instructor was very kind and considerate and he was one of the reasons why Mapa Time is enjoyable and memorable. he was also approachable which is good since all of us were ignorant and it was our first time to encounter this session. i was eager every Thursday morning to wake up this early just to attend every session in Mapa Time.

It was a foreign experience for me for I have zero interest for geography. I honestly have no idea what the purpose of this thing was at first, I thought it was just something to kill our time with and stress us out with the early mornings instead of going to school at 1pm but honestly, I have come to the realization that this program is beneficial to the community for it focuses on locating and improving the map of remote areas in the Philippines which is closely related to CWTS. Our time was well spent, I can say with all certainty, the program is full of productivity and no time was wasted. I have learned that it is beneficial for both privileged Filipinos and the masses, the privileged can use this for their grab rides if they have a field work on remote areas for their convenience on the other hand, the masses can use this as means of knowing more about the places in the Philippines or if they are living in these remote ares, they can be certain that they are not forgotten, they are one of us and they are still in the map of the Philippines.

i found my expirience here in MAPA TIME was so interesting and fascinating. This sessions was so productive because we learned a lot here,the things I learned here are , how to draw some lines that symbolize roads , and area which is buildings. I think it is usefull for my everyday life, and maybe sometimes when I have freetime , I can share it to my friends and family. My favorite activities here is addings roads, because I found it easy and I think Im having fun with it. I can’t volunteer here because, being a BSA student was such a hard task,I spend my time studying our lessons. Its perfect , though there are some hard parts, it doesn’t need improvements in my own perceptions only.

Today I wanted to to learn how JOSM - Java OpenStreetMap Editor - differed in its features from the iD Editor available online. Its main advantages over the fantastic online editor are being able to use it offline, and its advanced features which I have yet to explore. As I become a more experienced mapper I imagine I will find good use cases for the JOSM editor.

This year I was privileged to attend my first SOTM global in Heidelberg Germany. I was granted a scholarship to attend the conference that helped me to be able to travel from Madagascar to Germany.

Before, I had attended State of the Map Africa in Kampala Uganda in 2017. It was the first international conference I have assisted. SOTM Africa had allowed me to meet new people and create a network. So I was very excited to attend SOTM 2019.

OSMF Support

I would like to say thanks to all SOTM organizers for their work. Then Dorothea Kazazi for her accompaniment during the travel preparation. She did awesome work for all of us to make sure that we got visas, the accommodation, the flights and the train tickets.

The travel guide was so helpful to travel from Frankfurt to Heidelberg.

New knowledge acquired

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