Mapping Nigeria on OpenStreetMap; eHealth Africa Contribution

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Mapping Nigeria on OpenStreetMap; eHealth Africa’s

Contribution

@olubunmi4ever SAMUEL AIYEORIBE

State of the Map Togo (SOTMTG15)

Who is eHealth Africa? A leading public service corporation

A leading healthcare delivery support solutions provider in Northern Nigeria;

supporting the fight against Polio disease among others

eHealth Africa works closely with NGOs, the Ministry of Health, and other partners to improve healthcare delivery.

We bring about positive change through technology and close the gap in access to healthcare

Recently involved in the fight against Ebola in West Africa Countries

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What is OpenStreetMap?

A free and open collaborative crowdsourcing map database of the world Map is a unique valuable resources to reduce or combat poverty, address

socio-economic development challenges

Also for public health delivery as it helps to bring to fore the under represent

and under served alike to the fore

OpenStreetMap map database is unique and open because everyone is free to contribute, use and re-use the data, and can be redistributed for any purpose without restriction. The architecture can be replicated and deploy for internal use for quick data production

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West Africa Project States

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eHealth OSM - How it Started

As one of the top Non-profit NGOs in Nigeria with interest at improving access to public health, GIS and spatial data is key to our operations

We maintain a robust spatial database of Nigeria used for planning,

implementing and monitoring immunization activities

At a particular time we needed more road data for routing and vaccine delivery planning

We also wanted to share some of our field collected data with the public OSM provided the platform to easily create, share and leverage on the data

and other applications in our operations

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Our Achievements with OSM From the first moment that we created our first node, we have been able to

achieve much with mapping OSM in a short period. Below are the summary;

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New look of Kano before and After

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Current look of Part of Kano

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eHealth Mapped Road Network

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eHealth Africa has already contributed over 60% of mapped road network in Nigeria

Combined Nigeria Road Network

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Challenges & Future Plans

Getting more volunteers, mapping enthusiast and GIS Specialist on the project of mapping Nigeria on OSM with appropriate tags and feature name

Our future plan is to continue with this as much as we can go from one state to another

To help build mapping community in Nigeria as well as facilitating connection

within other Africa countries and the entire world Map Nigeria to building level to support the Nigeria 2016 Census The next phase will be to collect streets, roads, and other feature of interest

names and update the OSM database.

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THANK YOU

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More Information Acknowledgement: eHealth Africa, eHA GIS Team, HOT Community & OpenStreetMap Contact Us: http://ehealthafrica.org Email: [email protected] [email protected] OSM Nigeria on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/openstreetmapnigeria

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