Contributing Advent 13: Haiyan Progress Video
Once in a while, the London OpenStreetMap group organises a hack weekend where a bunch of us hack on various different projects, such as the new design, project OSRM or using Food Hygiene Open Data to improve OpenStreetMap.
The last few that I have attended were always close to the end of the year, so I tend to use them to make my "year of edits" videos:
This year instead I focussed on creating a mapping party progress video for the great work that the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has been doing for organising and mapping the destruction of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. There have been lots of media coverage but I wanted to show how much they have added in the two weeks since the thyphoon hit—and what better to do this then with a progress video.
I have made many videos before, mostly for mapping parties in London, but also for other areas, such as Burgos in Spain, and for the Carse of Gowrie. At first I wanted to make them for the large area around Tacloban but in the end it made more sense to just do a slightly smaller area:
I have used a slightly tweaked variant of my OSM progress software that you can find on GitHub: https://github.com/derickr/osm-progress — I'll soon clean up my changes and push them to the repository as well.
Life Line
Updated an information and a bench
Created 2 benches
Created 4 picnic_tables, a bench, and a fitness_station; Updated a pub and a sport club
Created 2 benches and 2 waste_baskets; Updated 4 benches, a bus_stop, and a cafe; Confirmed a dentist
Created 3 waste_baskets, 2 main entrances, and a bench; Deleted a cycle_barrier, a bench, and a waste_basket
Created an information; Updated a waste_basket and a bench
Updated 2 waste_baskets and a bench
Created 3 benches
Created a waste_basket; Updated 2 benches and a tree
I walked 3.5km in 35m31s
Created a main entrance and a home entrance
Created an entrance
Updated a house building
Created an entrance
I walked 5.8km in 1h15m06s
I've just finished reading "A Cheese-Monger's Tour de France", by Ned Palmer.
Now I want to try many of those! 🧀
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I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be speaking at the 23rd edition of #phpday, the international PHP conference in Italy, organised by @grusp.
I’ll be presenting a talk titled: "Better Debugging With Xdebug".
It's in Verona, Italy, on May 14-15th 2026.
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I walked 5.5km in 1h11m00s
I walked 1.1km in 9m37s
Merged pull request #1066
PHP 8.6: Changes to opcache optimisations wrt function arguments
I walked 10.5km in 1h49m54s
Fixed building type
Fixed addresses and building type
Updated a bus_stop, a waste_basket, and a bench
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