"The power of this project is that the data is not just extracted and put in presentations for policymakers—it's also given back to the communities themselves and used to empower them,"
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"But no international campaign can succeed unless it is backed by locally grounded efforts. Before ALDAW was created, Palawan NGOs had no unitary and campaign strategy," said Novellino. "It was only through ALDAW that active collaboration and communication was established between the villagers, national advocacy bodies such as Alyansa tigil Mina (Alliance Against Mining) and international support."
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Today, for the first time, we draw the attention of our community to a substantial project, one that will unfold for many years to come. Following the general rule of every action we take, the beneficiary will be you, the members of the geospatial community. For sometime now, a part of us have invested time and resources in identifying and digitally preserving (through scanning and photographing) cartographic materials of a great historical value (series of maps, atlases).
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The OSM Server Side Script (or OSM3S) is a read-only API that serves up raw XML encoded OSM map data. OSM3S is currently at an early stage of development. Version 0.7.0 is due to be released in early July 2011, which will include significant performance and functionality enhancements from v0.6.0. OSM3S includes functionality similar to that of XAPI.
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Indaba is an online platform combining elements of project, relationship and knowledge management. Indaba automates workflows, allowing geographically distributed teams to scale up rapidly, work efficiently, and publish the results in open, sharable formats.
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