According to the United Nation's World Risk Index of 2011, the Philippines is ranked third of 173 nations that is most vulnerable to disasters. Yearly, the country is visited by super typhoons and monsoon carrying torrential rains; as such, flooding has been a rampant issue to which it frequently results to damage to agriculture, property and human lives. The force of nature is inevitable yet preparedness is crucial before a calamity occurs while immediate response is needed as the calamity passes. Precise actions for preparedness and rescue is the real deal when a calamity strikes; and such precision can only be attained through availability of tools that helps the local government decide to reduce the risk every time a geomorphologic event happens in a locality. And these tools are highly dependent on maps with accurate and recently updated data. Schadow1 Expeditions has heed the call and joined the project headed by Environmental Science for Social Change in collaboration with Openstreetmap Philippines in training the local government units of Lubao, Pampanga on mapping their locality.
