Feye Andal
Feye is a Geospatial Analyst based in the Philippines. She has been an active volunteer with OpenStreetMap-Philippines since 2013. Through her extensive involvement, she has honed her expertise in teaching diverse stakeholders how to effectively use OpenStreetMap and open mapping tools. Recognized for her leadership and expertise, Feye serves as a Regional Ambassador of YouthMappers since 2020. In this capacity, she actively supports student organizations, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange among aspiring young mappers.
Sessions
This workshop offers a comprehensive introduction to utilizing Python programming for geospatial analysis and visualization. Geospatial data is essential in various domains such as environmental sciences, urban planning, agriculture, and disaster management. This workshop aims to equip participants with foundational skills to harness the power of Python libraries and tools for handling, analyzing, and visualizing geospatial data.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have a solid grasp of the core principles of geospatial data handling using Python. They will be empowered to create their own geospatial projects, capable of ingesting, analyzing, and visualizing spatial data to derive meaningful analysis.
This talk considers the contributions of YouthMappers chapters in Asia. In addition to a regional overview, we highlight actions of students in Bangladesh and the Philippines to fill critical data gaps that support community access to information during emergencies, natural disasters, and pandemics using open data such as OpenStreetMap and open source tools like QGIS. Lack of data leads to poor decision-making at any time, but in the context of shocks and hazards, it can have an especially profound impact on local communities. By creating open geospatial data through OSM and by advancing the geospatial capacity of university students and local community members, local governing bodies will be able to plan for the well-being of their constituents and community members will have access to the information necessary to keep their families safe. This contributes to better health and well-being (SDG3)and a more resilient society in the face of impacts of climate change (SDG 13).