OpenStreetMap
Gwantwa Andrew, Junior Supervisor at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) local partner, Open Map Development Tanzania (OMDTZ)
I joined HOT as a volunteer mapper in March 2015. I was one of the first few students selected from Ardhi University to work with this organisation, when it started operating in Tanzania. My first professional engagement with HOT was in a project called Community Mapping for Flood Resilience in Dar es Salaam city. My responsibilities in this project revolved around collection of spatial data on housing and related infrastructures in twenty six wards in the city. Later on in this project, i played training and supervisory role on new students who joined the project. At the end of this project, we produced maps showing all flood prone areas in the surveyed wards. The maps were meant to be used as important tool for flood prevention and management at community level.
I also worked in a project on Malaria Elimination in Zimbabwe. My tasks in this project was to map all buildings targeted for malaria prevention intervention. Mapping in this project was done remotely using open source software namely JOSM and id Editor. This project was successfully accomplished in 2017 and it was handed over to the government of Zimbabwe for other actions.
My third major project that i participated at HOT was a Mini Grids project Tanzania. The purpose was to identify all buildings not connected to the power supply through the main national grid in order to plan for them to access power from solar and other renewable Mini Grid electrification. I successfully supervised a team of 78 mappers and the work was accomplished within 5 months on July 2018.
I also worked in Shina Mapping project in Dar es Salaam city. The objective in this project was to produce maps that allows Amana hospital at Ilala district to do the registration and collection of information on patients records from the lowest administrative boundary called Shina. My involvement in this project was to collect data on Shina boundaries and update them into the open data kit.
My contact: [email protected]
Discussion
Comment from amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️⚧️ on 31 January 2019 at 09:12
Sounds like you’ve done quite a lot of good things with OSM! It’s always get to see people doing on the ground surveys, and helping people. Can you tell us more about this Facebook Roads Import? Where can we read more? Where’s the wiki page about this?
Comment from Dorice lucas on 31 January 2019 at 10:05
what an experience with HOT.All the best in your career.
Comment from Gwantwa_Andrew on 31 January 2019 at 11:53
Ok, thank you. This is the link you can read more about Facebook Road Import@rorym
https://www.hotosm.org/updates/1-year-and-100k-kilometers/
Comment from Gwantwa_Andrew on 31 January 2019 at 11:55
Thank you so much @Dorice lucas
Comment from amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️⚧️ on 31 January 2019 at 12:13
Thanks @Gwantwa. That link is interesting, but it isn’t really what I mean. It talks, in vague terms, about HOT + FB’s work in Indonesia. The OSM community has adopted some Organised Editing Guidelines for groups to follow. I don’t see this on the list of activities. Those rules are there for everyone’s benefit and to make OpenStreetMap better and to help your group out, which I’m sure is everyone’s goals. Can you update the wiki please?
Comment from Gwantwa_Andrew on 1 February 2019 at 08:43
Ok, thank you so much @rorym for more information about Facebook Road Import project contact Russel through @russdeffner is the project manager of this project