Whats Crowd2Map Tanzania?

Mapping rural Tanzania into openstreetmapNorthampton University Seminarcrowd2MapFebruary 2017

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Tanzania development trust

Works in rural areas of Tanzania that are very poorly mapped, making navigation and development difficult2

Safe House for girls refusing fgm in mugumu serengeti

Our largest project is a Safe House for girls refusing Female Genital Mutilation. The outreach work in the surrounding villages was hampered by the lack of maps. 3

Some Mapping initiatives in tanzaniaMapAction earthquake damage in BukobaTanzania Bird AtlasJane Goodall Institute, Carbon Tanzania mapping tree cover John Snow Institute road mapping using sensors in Medical Supplies TrucksRamani Huria flood resilience in Dar es SalaamFlowminder mapping access to mobile financial servicesCrowd2Map volunteer mapping of rural Tanzania, initially to protect girls from Female Genital Mutilation

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MapActionMapAction deployed to Tanzania to support the Government of Tanzania in partnership with the United Nations Disaster Assessment Coordination team (UNDAC) to understand needs presented after the earthquake of the 11th September 2016 in Bukoba. The mapping teams supported the coordinated needs assessment, mapping population coverage, affected areas and damage assessments.

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MapAction

http://maps.mapaction.org/event/tanzania-eq-2016

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MapAction

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Tanzanian Bird Atlas

http://tanzaniabirdatlas.net/Based in Iringa

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Jane Goodall Institute, Gombe, KigomaWork with local villages to develop land use plans to protect environment that are then monitored by forest wardens and by satellite.

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Jane Goodall Institute, Gombe, Kigoma

Using DigitalGlobe satellite data from 2005 (left) and 2014 (right), JGI staff can see that Kigalye Village has implemented a land-use plan that allows Miombo woodlands to regenerate naturally.

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Jane Goodall Institute, Gombe, KigomaWith the Community Forest Monitoring Dashboard, decision-makers can see how thoroughly the Kigalye Forest Reserve is being patrolled and how frequently illegal activities take place.

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CarbonTanzania Carbon Tanzania develop REDD Projects (ReducedEmissions fromDeforestation & forestDegradation) in conjunction with Tanzanias indigenous communities.

They then sell the certified, forest carbon offsets generated by the project to companies and individuals wanting to offset their emissions with the revenue flowing back to the forest communities, and monitor via satellite images and local wardens.

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John Snow Institute, tracking medical deliveries

Added sensors to track Medical Stores delivery vehicles to monitor deliveries.

Used data to also improve road maps.

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John Snow Institute, tracking medical deliveries

Volunteer mappers imported the data into Openstreetmap.

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John Snow Institute, tracking medical deliveries

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Using local & satellite mapping to map rural tanzania Crowd2Map Tanzania Janet ChapmanEgle Marija Ramanauskaite

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Were mapping rural Tanzania. Why?

The remote villages where TDT works are EXTREMELY poorly mapped.

Local officials lack maps of their area.

This makes navigation and planning difficult.

We are mapping onto Openstreetmap that is accessible to everyone online and on phones.

Sometime hand drawn map on wall, often not. Getting lost driving through rivers in the rain. Asked local reps to draw map of where village was, they couldnt17

Were mapping rural Tanzania. Why?

Rural Tanzania is blank in Google Maps.

Most rural Tanzania looked like this when we started - and much of it still does..Zeze village, Kigoma, population 8200

When told Egle she didnt believe me how bad the maps were. Most still looks like this need stats for points added..

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Were mapping rural Tanzania. Why?

Locals have been mapping points of importance, worship places, shops, schools, community library

Points added in OSM and Maps.Me19

Focus: fighting FGM in MugumuRhobi at a roadshow against FGM in a village near Mugumu.

Rhobi at a roadshow against FGM in a village near Mugumu. Challenge in outreach in villages, no maps 20

Transferring Gov Open Data to OSM data from http://opendata.go.tz/

EMR: prepare for Qs about open data. Where did you get it from? Was it government-collected? Are you sure it is usable? Did you consider importing it straight to OSM (not manual)? Is that all the data you got? How recent is it? Are you still accessing other open data from elshwere ?21

Transferring Gov Open Data to OSM Over 600 online volunteers manually added schools and clinics.

Over 900 volunteers largely through UN online volunteers, regular contact via email. 22

Mapping on Maps.meWhen new version of Maps.Me allowed users to add points directly to OSM we started using that instead of Epicollect.

Moved to maps.me

Tried OSMAND, but difficult for novice users23

Mapping on Maps.meNow also have a Swahili version.

Maps me brilliant now you can add points, but list not that suitable for rural Africa.. 24

Mapping Competition!

Sharing the leader board on Whats App groups was good at increasing motivation

say more on Mapping competition how much are people contributing

EMR: how many people? How well are they engaging? Are the points accurate? Reliable ?25

Remote villages are still missing from maps

Posting questions on Facebook group

Via Facebook, Whats app26

Communication: WhatsAppPosting of updates about monthly competition increased motivation.

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Satellite mapping via HOT Task Manager/project/1788 http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1788#

Now 100% mapped, 80% validated thanks Sophie!

https://vimeo.com/199314736

Set up project on HOT for area around Mugumu, 28

Satellite mapping via HOT Task Manager/project/1788 Online volunteers trace roads and villages from satellite images.

Set up project on HOT for area around Mugumu, 29

Triple mapping party, May 2016!

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Satellite mapping events by volunteersRamani Huria volunteers mapping Mugumu on May 7th 2016 in Dar es Salaam.

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EMR: how did they come to be? How did these volunteers find you? Decide to map? Who trained them?31

Mugumu Safe House girls engaging in mapping themselvesRhobi and some of the girls at the Safe House mapping in OSM on May 7th after initial training when I visited.

Safe house

EMR: who trained them? How did they do? Do they continue mapping after the event?32

WinsReaching more girls in Mara via Mugumu Safe House

Discovery of remote villages

Reaching remote villages (limited roads, bridges)

Fuel planning

Better maps will help girls reach the Safe House on their ownWere reaching places that weve never reached before

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Adding water point, school and clinic data

https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/873491619459013/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_XF436QWMg

What weve achieved..Weve now recruited over 900 online volunteers and 199 local mappers. In our 2 HOT tasks in Mara region 696 mappers have mapped an area of 14,248 square kilometres and added 5 towns and 169 villages and hamlets. Weve also added 42,128 km of roads and tracks and 700,000 buildings.. Countrywide we have added 12,294 schools and 162 clinics to Openstreetmap from government open data.

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Effect on FGM Having better maps helped prevent 2257 girls from being cut this year. However change is a slow process. 1076 girls were still cut, down from 3700 the previous year, and 4 girls died, down from 12 last year.

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FGM Maphttps://jachapman82.carto.com/builder/4324bc10-f250-11e6-9d00-0ee66e2c9693/embed

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How you can help..Start mapping! Anyone with an internet connection can get involved!

Tell people you know with an interest in mapping and/or FGM

Use Maps.Me if you visitTanzania to add places to the map.

Access to smartphones is the limiting factor, so if you have any unwanted phones we can make very good use of them!

Any comments, questions or suggestions always welcome!

Thank you

Janet j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org Egle emramanauskaite@gmail.com

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?crowd2map.org Questions?

@crowd2map @jachapman82crowd2maptanzania@gmail.comj.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org Crowd2Map

Now lets get mapping!

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