Map Kibera is a project to map the Kibera slum area of Nairobi, Kenya using OpenStreetMap. The project partners with local community groups and NGOs to train young residents to map Kibera themselves using GPS devices and satellite imagery. Volunteers from Nairobi and the global tech community also participate. The goal is to create an accurate, up-to-date map of Kibera since it is currently a blank spot on most maps. Once complete, the map and data will be used by local residents, organizations, and governments to improve services and access within Kibera.

1. Map Kibera
Mikel Maron
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
The Break Away
2009 Nov 14
photo: http://gallery.me.com/dbullington#100816&view=null&bgcolor=black&sel=12

2. Kibera 1 million people(?), 2.5 km2
is a blank spot on the map

3. November (NOW!)
Partner with community groups
and NGOs working in Kibera
Train movitated young Kiberans
to map Kibera themselves.
Volunteers from Nairobi and
global tech community
Data users and coders invited
to participate

4. OpenStreetMap?
Global Collaborative Mapping
“kinda like Wikipedia for Maps”

5. GPS Surveying, Mapping Parties,
Imagery Digitizing, Open Database

8. Maps and Data are
Expensive, Wrong, Not Everywhere

9. We're growing fast!

10. OSM in
Print, Offline, Mobile

11. OSM in
Govt & Corps

12. H.O.T
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

13. MAPACTION – PHILLIPINES –
DATA SHARING
Philippines Typhoon Response
photo: http://www.mapaction.org/deployments/mapdetail/1801.html

14. Mapping Palestine

15. we are missing
Neutral Geographic Context
photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/discoste/3069220022/

16. Palestine Mappers!
August 2008 – April 2009

17. Testing Our Mapping
Assumptions

18. Not Easy!
Security/ Heat!/
Volunteers to Job Creation

19. Gaza January 2009
no decent maps anywhere

20. Call out for help
Fundraiser for Imagery

21. Tidal wave of crowdsourcing

22. Southern Gaza
Remote Mappers, 7 days

23. local knowledge

24. Gaza City today

25. Applications and Use
Nationalized Routing

26. Arabic Maps

27. Gaza Incident Map

28. Gaza Tourist Map

29. Map Cake!

30. Kibera 1 million people(?), 2.5 km2
is a blank spot on the map

31. Is this all we see of Kibera?

32. Existing Data
satellite imagery

33. Partners and Allies
Tech Community: Ushahidi, Mobile Boot Camp, skunkwerks,
OpenStreetMap
Universities: Columbia University, U of Nairobi
Agencies: Nairobi, City Govt, UN-Habitat, UNHCR, UNICEF,
Google
Broadcast and Community Media: Pamoja FM, Kibera
Journal, KTN, Citizen TV, Kibera WorldWide, Hot Sun
Foundation
AND you and who...?

34. Kibera Mappers!

35. GPS Surveying

36. Walking Papers

38. The Lab

39. What do we collect?
roads and paths and rail
wells
pit latrines / sewer
medical facilities
schools
churches/mosques
businesses
community organizations
administrative units
and whatever else is
useful?!

41. Outreach: Community

42. Outreach: Administration

43. Outreach: YOU
Step Up!

44. So what? you have a map..
Media Aggregator
Community news on the map .. Kibera Journal, Pamoja
FM, Kibera WorldWide
Ongoing Programs
for data collection in Kibera and Nairobi Slums,
Kenya, and Globally
Geeks!!
Build cool stuff with our Kibera and OpenStreetMap data
Workshops
NGOs / UN / Govt raise awareness and build projects with Map
Kibera, open data and open source.

45. Week 1

46. "Kibera's people deserve to know the
facts about their lives" -- Robert Neuwirth,
Shadow Cities

47. Map Kibera http://mapkibera.org/
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Humanitarian_OSM_Team
http://www.slideshare.net/mikel_maron
http://brainoff.com/
mikel@osmfoundation.org