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Geospatially Africa Podcast |The Podcast for the Geospatial Community. GIS, RS, Drones, Technology
29 Sept 2021
Digital Mapping in the Humanitarian context with Janet Chapman (Crowd2Map)
Crowd2Map Tanzania is an entirely volunteer crowdsourced mapping project that has been mapping putting rural Tanzania on the OpenStreetMap since October 2015. They have been adding schools, hospitals, roads, buildings and villages to OpenStreetMap with the help of volunteers worldwide and on the ground in Tanzania and have trained over 16,000 remote mappers from all over the world to map from satellite images and over 3000 field mappers to add their local knowledge to these base maps, mostly using the free smartphone app Maps.Me.
Opeyemi sat down with the Founder - Janet Chapman to talk about her journey and the impact of the project
Discussion points
* Janet talks about herself and her journey
* Introduction to Tanzania Development Trust & Crowd2Map
* How Crowd2Map was started
* How Crowd2Map works.
* Digital champions, Weekly report cards & targets quiz, Remote mappers- Tasking managers
* GIS tools used and how they are used (On the field and remotely)
* How do you…
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Chaos Computer Club - State of the Map 2020 (mp3)
4 Jul 2020
Building mapping communities in rural Tanzania – challenges, successes and lessons learnt (sotm2020)
Crowd2Map Tanzania is a volunteer run crowdsourced project that has been mapping rural Tanzania since 2015. This talk will give an overview of some of the lessons learnt, particularly in building mapping communities in remote rural areas with first time smartphone users.
Since 2015, we have been adding schools, hospitals, roads, buildings and villages to OpenStreetMap with the help of over 12500 volunteers worldwide and 600 on the ground in Tanzania. With minimal budget and no staff we have so far added over 4.1 million buildings and trained community mappers in 26 areas of Tanzania. We were asked to run a mapathon at the United Nations General Assembly in October 2018 and have also been featured in many newspaper articles.
We have prioritised mapping those areas of Tanzania where girls are at risk of Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, so that activists and the police can more easily find and protect them. But we have also been working with other community groups and district officia…
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