Category: Map Mathare
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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 for an average of 5 hours per day. That accumulates up to 1250 man hours. Of course the exact figure of man hours is much lower mainly due to a limited…
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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 two days of editing in December 2010. Points and lines were collected using GPS units and village boudaries were digitized over satellite imagery.
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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 of as many residents of Mathare as possible, we’re continuing with a rotating venues approach. We are trying to get different groups to host us so we can be closer to…
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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 for the past two weeks – altogether 6 days of mapping and 2 days of video. The map needed (and still does) more information in order to become a good base…
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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 from video editing because of the overwhelmingly large numbers of people who showed interest in being trained. The data editing in OSM session was held on Tuesday, 14.12.2010. Turnout was good…
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Digitizing Village Boundaries of Mathare
The biggest slums in Nairobi (like Kibera and Mathare) usually consist of different villages. That is why before we started working in Mathare we had to determine where these villages are located. This was/is important for many reasons: Determining the area. By locating the villages of the slum we outlined the area of Mathare. Planning…
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Map Mathare – The Beginning
We started the long awaited Map Mathare on Monday, 6th December, 2010. Before that we had a forum on Wednesday, 1st December, where teams from Kibera presented what they did and talked about the plans for Map Mathare. The forum was a success as around 130 people showed up and the response we got made…