Building a Tech Mapping Community in Uganda

Ketty Adoch@kadoch

Building a Tech Mapping Community in Uganda

Mapping day

Easymappr

Geobucket

Mapping day UG

Building a robust OSM community in Uganda

www.mappingday.com

@mapuganda

Past

3 years

Total mapping events = 25

Trained 400+ people

Present

More mapping events

Monthly meet-ups

Talk-Ug OSM mailing list

Future

More mapping

Community, Community

Low Tech Mapping

Training session

Tech Tools

EasyMappr

Geobucket

Easymappr

Maps one feature at a time

www.easymappr.com

Typical User Interface

Easymappr

Plots the feature to OSM

On OSM

Geobucket

www.geobucket.org

Geobucket

tracks the longitude and latitude of a phone

Un-intrusive for non-mappers

anonymous

Data

Saves traces to local database

Uploads to website

OSM id editor

allowing roads/paths to be accurately mapped

Why we are doing this

Working with students and professionals

More detailed mapping

A valuable map

Recap

Building a robust OSM community

Very easy mapping tools

Thank You

[email protected]

@kadoch