OpenStreetMap
Within the past two weeks I taught two seminar sessions on OpenStreetMap at Ndejje University. Ndejje University is a small Christian education institution in central Uganda. The students are from different academic backgrounds like civil engineering, renewable energies, land surveying, and others. Most of them had never heard of OSM before.
However, after an introductory class in the first week, we surveyed the two university campuses using different types of GPS devices and entered the data into the OSM database. The map for Ndejje University is now pretty comprehensive. Additionally, the students have pledged to continue contributing for other places in East Africa like Uganda, South Sudan, and others.
The seminar was great fun and I hope it will foster the development of OSM here in Africa as well.
Discussion
Comment from DaCor on 11 May 2015 at 14:26
Nice work
Comment from grin on 21 May 2015 at 06:54
Hello Jotam!
Nice work! It’s great to hear that people could meet OSM there since it can really help them.
I was wondering whether do you have more recorded GPS tracks around? Could you upload them to OSM as well?
There is Bing coverage on the area but to be able to see whether there’s an offset there should be more overlapping tracks. There is also MapBox coverage but it seem to divert from some roads you’ve drawn and I wonder whether there’s been a change on the area or the mapping was not precise enough (like Way: 343666238 is 10+ meters off the sat imagery while others [like Way: 303510149] exactly cover it). (I don’t see how old the imagery is, by the way.)
I wish there’d be more such successful seminars around.
Peter
Comment from Kateregga1 on 1 May 2016 at 15:56
Hello Jotam
Great to hear about your work in Uganda, we have also been doing OSM training in the past with other universities in Kampala and Eastern Uganda but had never been to Ndejje University.
Geoffrey.