Paper Mapping
The approaches to paper mapping are well described by Mikel in his blog post called Paper Mapping in Community Meetings. What I would like to add to his points ...
Tag: Map Kibera
Doing the other 90% in Kibera
A lot of ink has been spilled writing about how technology is only 10% and all the other stuff you have to do to make the project successful is 90%. These two p...
Why Map Open Drainage? And How?
I believe that the reasons to map open drainage in the slums are well known and are obvious to most people. Everyone who’s ever been to the slums knows that ope...
Update on video in Mathare (and Kibera)
This is a fairly short and quick update on video in Mathare and even shorter in Kibera. One of our ideas at the beginning of the video program in Mathare was th...
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. Po...
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 ...
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 from video e...
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 determi...
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 ...