Presentation by Crowd2Map on how community mapping into OpenStreetMap in Tanzania can aid development and fight Female Genital Mutilation

1. Janet Chapman
j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org
GROWING LOCAL MAPPING COMMUNITIES IN RURAL TANZANIA TO
FIGHT FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AND AID DEVELOPMENT

2. WE’RE MAPPING RURAL TANZANIA. WHY?
• Remote villages 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.

3. WE’RE MAPPING RURAL TANZANIA. WHY?
• Much of rural Tanzania is blank in Google Maps and OpenStreetMap.
MOST RURAL TANZANIA LOOKED LIKE
THIS WHEN WE STARTED - AND MUCH OF
IT STILL DOES..
Zeze village, Kigoma,
population 9200

4. WE’RE MAPPING RURAL TANZANIA. WHY?

5. How we map
1. Set up a task on MapSwipe app to determine where the
buildings are in the area to be mapped –RV
2. Create a task on HOTOSM Task Manager to map the areas
with buildings – RV
3. Add names of buildings, villages etc using Maps.Me app –
local volunteers
4. Validate and add any new buildings, names of roads, land use
etc using printed FieldPapers – local volunteers – email to RV
5. Create PDFs of village maps using QGIS and email to LV to
print.
RV = Remote volunteers
LV = Local volunteers

6. REMOTE MAPPERS - SATELLITE MAPPING VIA HOT TASK MANAGER
http://tasks.hotosm.org/
project/1788#
https://vimeo.com/199314736

7. SATELLITE MAPPING VIA HOT TASK MANAGER
Online volunteers trace
roads and villages from
satellite images.

8. LOCAL MAPPERS: MAPPING ON MAPS.ME
LOCAL MAPPERS ADD POINTS OF
INTEREST, CHURCHES, SHOPS,
SCHOOLS, WATER POINTS USING
MAPS.ME ON PHONES…

9. EMPOWERING LOCAL MAPPING COMMUNITIES THEMSELVES

10. TRANSFERRING GOV OPEN DATA TO OSM
data from http://opendata.go.tz/

11. TRANSFERRING GOV OPEN DATA TO OSM
Over 600 online
volunteers manually
added schools and
clinics.

12. TRAINING EVENTS

14. ONE FOCUS: FIGHTING FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN MUGUMU, SERENGETI
The largest project that Tanzania Development Trust has
supported is a Safe House for girls refusing Female Genital
Mutilation, run by FGM survivor Rhobi Samwelly. She visits
the villages around Mugumu to tell girls about the Safe
House and the dangers of FGM. This work was hampered by
the lack of maps showing the location of the villages.

15. FGM
Safe House able to reach more girls
in Mara via
✓ Discovery of remote villages
✓ Reaching remote villages
(limited roads, bridges, issues
in rainy season)
✓ Fuel planning
✓ Better maps will eventually
help girls reach the Safe House
on their own
“We’re reaching places that we’ve never reached before”

16. WHAT WE’VE ACHIEVED..
• We’ve now recruited over 9500 online volunteers and
over 600 local mappers.
• mapped an area of over 17,248 square kilometres,
added 23 towns and 363 villages and 45 hamlets.
• added over 96,742 km of roads and tracks and over
2.9 million buildings.
• Countrywide we have added 12,294 schools and 162
clinics to Openstreetmap from government open
data.

17. EFFECT ON FGM
Better maps helped
• prevent 2257 girls
from being cut in the
last main cutting
season. However
change is a slow
process.
• 1076 girls were still
cut in Mara, down
from 3700 the
previous year,
• and 4 girls died, down
from 12.

18. AWARDED HUMANITARIAN OPENSTREETMAP TEAM (HOT) MICROGRANT
Grant of $5000 in June 2017 to
• buy 48 smartphones,
• train village level community change agents in 12
areas of Tanzania, and
• generate village and ward level maps and data,
particularly around access to water, health
facilities and land rights.

19. http://bit.ly/C2MDashboard
Where we’ve mapped so far:

20. We want to create
printable maps for every
village that wants one

21. CAN YOU HELP??
Any comments, questions or suggestions always welcome!
Thank you!
Janet j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org @crowd2map