Category: Digitization
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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, and four here. Building upon previous efforts (read here and here), the State University of Zanzibar students finalized digitization of buildings on the Zanzibar Archipelago (Unguja and Pemba Islands). Fifty students…
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Open Cities Zanzibar
Open Cities Africa Project Open Cities Africa is an initiative carried out in 10 cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, to engage local government, civil society, and the private sector to develop the information infrastructures necessary to meet 21st-century urban resilience challenges. The project is aligned with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery’s (GFDRR) Resilient…
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Open Cities Africa, Zanzibar
Spatial Collective is the implementing partner of the World Bank’s Open Cities Africa initiative on Zanzibar. The goal of the initiative is to create and release open spatial data about the built environment, critical infrastructure, and natural hazards concerning the Zanzibar Archipelago, with a specific focus on Zanzibar City. This project builds on our previous…
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Survey of 6000+ plots in Viwandani (Photo Blog)
In the past six weeks, Spatial Collective’s team visited approximately 6000 plots in Viwandani Area in Nairobi and completed thousands of interviews touching on access to sanitation facilities. To complete a project this size in such a short time, project planning and good teamwork are essential. Images below represent one of our fieldwork planning meetings…
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Digitizing Zanzibar Archipelago (Progress Report)
Spatial Collective spent months on Zanzibar building capacity of the Commission for Lands (COLA) and State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) students and staff on digitizing the Digitizing the Outputs of the Zanzibar Mapping Initiative. The goal was to build enough capacity so that local entities can independently digitize all the structures on Unguja (and eventually…
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Digitizing Viwandani
In collaboration with Sanergy, Spatial Collective digitized Viwandani area of Mukuru in Nairobi. Using aerial imagery provided by Ramani Geosystems Ltd., we produced a building footprint of every structure, which will later be used for identification of plots and developing plot profiles. Each structure is an outline of a building’s roof as seen from the…