7% of Mathare has been ground truthed
We have completed the ground truthing of a test area of Mathare 10, Mashimoni, Mabatini and Thayu. The whole exercise took us two days.…
Ground Truthing Mathare
The American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) donated us a WorldView-2 image (read more) with 6% cloud cover, taken on 30th of June…
Base map of Mathare is complete!
We’ve completed the base map of Mathare. It took us 17 days during which 15 mappers (on average each day) would map and edit…
Open Street Mapping of Mathare, December 2010
This is a visual representation of the amount of data which was collected in two days of field work and put into OSM in…
This belongs to Mathare!
Mike: "Karibu Huruma. You want some tea?" Me: "Is it safe here?" Mike: "Don't worry, you're very safe here!" In order to encourage participation…
mlimayawongonyi – The Hills of Wongonyi Blog
Wongonyi is a sub location, a group of remote villages, situated in Taita Hills in the coastal province of Kenya. Without electricity and…
Mathare is still there after the New Year
It's been three weeks since the New Year when everybody in Kenya (at least who can afford) travels to shambaland. We’ve been doing trainings…
Mathare Valley Blog
Here's an incredible blog about Mathare, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, written by its residents. Thanks to Simon Kokoyo who has been diligent…
Audio slideshow: On the map
BBC's slideshow on Map Kibera by your favourite narrator: ON THE MAP
Map Mathare – Second week of training
The second week of data collection and trainings in mapping and video editing techniques is behind us. We decided we’ll hold map editing separately…