cool, are the people from africa joining a OSM mailiglist? What about a OSM conference or workshop initiated in africa? Are there any contacts to the governments to support OSM?
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel_ma...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I receive an inquiry from a colleague at the UN Office for Outer Space > Affairs on the current state of OSM in Africa, > and I wrote up this brief survey in response. For certain many cool > activities are missing, so please fill in the blanks. > > The results will be shared with UNOOSA directly and blogged. > > Cheers > Mikel > > > > OpenStreetMap is growing rapidly across all of Africa. > Mapping is spreading through local mappers, mappers on > vacation, foreign nationals, and remote mapping using > satellite imagery. A recent comparison judged the OSM > had the most comprehensive coverage of Africa among > web mapping services, especially in cities. > > > http://blog.fortiusone.com/2008/12/12/openstreetmap-vs-googleteleatlas-street-coverage/ > > > * Wiki Projects * > > There are active wiki projects in Algeria, Burkina Faso, > Burundi, Cameroon, Congo-Kinshasa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, > Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, > Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia .. and other places no doubt. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Africa > > Particularly interesting is a project to map the entire Nile. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Nile > > > * UN * > > Bo Robert Pederson of UNICEF has been informally mapping > Accra and Nairobi to comprehensive levels, and will be > investigating bringing OSM more directly into UNICEF's > activities. There's strong interest in East Africa in > OSM as a component of the EA-SDI. > > In cooperation with the UNJLC, Neil Penman and other > volunteers from IBM importing UN data sets for Southern > Sudan into OSM. We continue to explore opportunies for > collaboration there. > > > * Conferences and Mapping Parties * > > In September 2008, the FOSS4G conference was held in > Cape Town. Open Geographic Data and OpenStreetMap emerged > as main themes of the conference. Very successful mapping > parties were held in conjunction, including mapping in > townships. > > http://porcupinealley.com/entries/2008/oct/09/township-mapping/ > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenMappingAfrica2008 > > Local mappers in Cape Town recently negotiated the release of > all street data held by the Cape Town metropolitan region, > to supplement the already stellar OSM coverage there. > This link is a quick rendering of the newly freed data. > > http://adrian.frith.co.za/slippymap/ > > > In July 2008, Wikimania (the Wikipedia conference) was > held at the Library of Alexandria in Egypt. OSM was presented > to great reception. A mapping party was held in Cairo, and > over the last six months Egypt's maps have grown extremely > rapidly. > > > * 2009 * > > Already a strong start to 2009, with new initiatives to promote > and use OpenStreetMap in Africa. > > DC Based technology consultants Development Seed have active > humanitarian mapping projects using OSM in Zimbabwe, Somalia, > and the DRC; And they are seeking interns to help with the > effort. > > > http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2009/jan/15/developing-countries-mapped-good-detail-open-street-map > > http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2009/jan/16/spring-2009-gis-humanitarian-relief-team > > > The OpenStreetMap Foundation will be distributing donated GPS > units to mappers in developing countries. > > http://foundation.openstreetmap.org/gpstogo/ > > > Not yet formally announced, the "Mappers Without Borders" project > will be providing OSM mapping assistance to humanitarian response > and development projects, particularly in Africa. (As a still > informal entity, we've recently been active in mapping the Gaza > Strip.) > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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