CROWD2MAP TANZANIA

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  Crowd2Map Tanzania

Inspiration

Crowd2Map Tanzania is a new crowdsourcing initiative aimed at creating a comprehensive map of Tanzania, including detailed depictions of all of its villages, roads and public resources (such as schools, shops, offices etc.) in OpenStreetMap and/or Google Maps, both of which are sadly rather poor at the moment.

In February 2016, Crowd2Map Tanzania was one of the 7 projects selected in the Open Seventeen challenge, which rallies the public to use open data as a means of achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals as proposed but the UN in September 2015! We are now excited to carry on with the help of O17 partners – Citizen Cyberlab, The GovLab, ONE and SciFabric! We’re tackling Goal 11: creating sustainable cities & communities and Goal 4: education through technology.

Crowd2Map is run via EpiCollect+ platform, which allows locals to install an app on smartphones or tablets and register various resources and villages through a simple data collection form. By setting coordinates, attaching a photo and answering a few questions, each point can be registered in seconds:

The data is then sent to the central server, and all the data points can immediately be visualized on a map via the browser: http://plus.epicollect.net/TDTschoolsResourceMap/Resources

Do some OSM coding & help us transform the data into a comprehensive map of Tanzania:

We're having a 3 site hackathon on May 7th https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/3-countries-3-time-zones-3-spaces-one-crowd-one-party-to-map-tanzania-tickets-22109616458

Built With

• epicollect+
• openstreetmap