From Aerial Imagery to Machine Learning
Innovating Land Mapping and Accessibility for Sustainable Development Spatial Collective, Radiant Earth, the Kenyan Space Agency (KSA), and PLACE collaborated on a pilot project…
Transforming Data Accessibility Through Location-Based Engagement
In this piece, I will mostly discuss the topic of data accessibility in informal settlements, however, accessing relevant data to make informed decisions about…
Kenya Digital Public Works
Between 2021 and 2022, we carried out a project called Kenya Digital Public Works. Here's a short description of the project with more on…
Thoughts on Analyzing and Visualizing Text Messages
This blog post discusses the challenges of analyzing text messages and how to make the data useful.
Household Survey
This is part of a series on the Industrial Training of Students on Zanzibar by Spatial Collective. You can read parts one, two, three,…
Mapping Drainage
This is part of a series on the Industrial Training of Students on Zanzibar by Spatial Collective. You can read parts one, two, three,…
Half a million buildings mapped
This is part of a series on the Industrial Training of Students on Zanzibar by Spatial Collective. You can read parts one, two, three,…
Creating a Base Map of Zanzibar
This is part of a series on the Industrial Training of Students on Zanzibar by Spatial Collective. You can read part one, two and…
Summary of the work completed so far on Zanzibar
In June, we signed the contract for the work on Tanzania Resilience Academy. Shortly after that, on June 16, we visited Zanzibar where we…
A neighborhood map
There is little accurate data about cities in Africa and a few effective methods to collect the same. Take Nairobi for example. Nairobi’s population…