Feye Andal
Feye Andal is a geospatial professional and long-time volunteer with OpenStreetMap-Philippines since 2013. She currently leads the WebGIS team at the UP Resilience Institute – NOAH Center, where she oversees the development of digital platforms for disaster resilience. She was a former Regional Ambassador for Asia-Pacific of YouthMappers, where she helped establish open mapping communities across the region.
Her work has been recognized internationally, including being named one of Geospatial World’s 50 Rising Stars, and through major awards such as the UN World Food Programme PREP Innovation Challenge (2024) for NOAH’s Impact-Based Flood Forecasting System.
Sessions
Culverted waterways and minor drainage features are physically present but persistently absent in OpenStreetMap — limiting flood and dengue risk analyses alike. This lightning talk documents a YouthMappers-led effort to map hidden urban waterways infrastructure and shows how improved completeness changes spatial risk outputs.
Impact-based flood forecasting asks not "how intense?" but "who gets hit, and how badly?"
This talk documents a open-source pipeline — Python, PostgreSQL, and QGIS — that translates rainfall forecasts and hazard layers into impact assessments for critical facilities, with honest discussion of what works, what doesn't, and why.