Presentation on Crowdsourced mapping to map rural Tanzania and help end Female Genital Mutilation by Janet Chapman of Crowd2Map and Tanzania Development Trust at Pint of Science, May 15th 2017

1. USING LOCAL & SATELLITE MAPPING TO MAP RURAL TANZANIA
& HELP PREVENT FGM - CROWD2MAP TANZANIA
Janet Chapman

2. WE’RE MAPPING RURAL TANZANIA. WHY?
• The remote villages where TDT works 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?
• Rural Tanzania is blank in Google Maps.
MOST RURAL TANZANIA LOOKED LIKE
THIS WHEN WE STARTED - AND MUCH OF
IT STILL DOES..
Zeze village, Kigoma,
population 8200

4. WE’RE MAPPING RURAL
TANZANIA. WHY?
LOCALS HAVE BEEN MAPPING POINTS
OF IMPORTANCE, WORSHIP PLACES,
SHOPS, SCHOOLS, COMMUNITY
LIBRARY …

5. FOCUS: FIGHTING FGM IN MUGUMU
Rhobi at a roadshow against FGM in a village near
Mugumu.

6. MAPPING ON MAPS.ME
When new version of
Maps.Me allowed users
to add points directly to
OSM we started using
that instead of Epicollect.

7. MAPPING ON MAPS.ME
Now also have a Swahili
version.

8. REMOTE VILLAGES ARE STILL MISSING FROM MAPS …
Posting questions on Facebook group

9. SATELLITE MAPPING VIA HOT TASK MANAGER /project/1788
http://tasks.hotosm.org/
project/1788#
Now 100% mapped, 80%
validated – thanks
Sophie!
https://vimeo.com/199314736

10. SATELLITE MAPPING VIA HOT TASK MANAGER /project/1788
Online volunteers trace
roads and villages from
satellite images.

11. SATELLITE MAPPING EVENTS BY VOLUNTEERS
Ramani Huria
volunteers mapping
Mugumu on May 7th
2016 in Dar es Salaam.

12. MUGUMU SAFE HOUSE GIRLS ENGAGING IN MAPPING THEMSELVES
Rhobi and some of the girls at the Safe House mapping in
OSM on May 7th after initial training when I visited.

13. WINS
• Reaching more girls in Mara via
Mugumu Safe House
 Discovery of remote villages
 Reaching remote villages (limited
roads, bridges)
 Fuel planning
 Better maps will help girls reach
the Safe House on their own
“We’re reaching places that we’ve never reached before”

14. WHAT WE’VE ACHIEVED..
• We’ve now recruited over 1500 online volunteers and
199 local mappers.
• mapped an area of over 16,248 square kilometres,
added 5 towns and 175 villages and hamlets.
• added over 62,128 km of roads and tracks and over a
million buildings..
• Countrywide we have added 12,294 schools and 162
clinics to Openstreetmap from government open
data.

16. EFFECT ON FGM
Having better maps helped
• prevent 2257 girls from being cut this year.
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 last year.

17. AWARDED HUMANITARIAN OPENSTREETMAP MICROGRANT
Grant of $5000 to
• buy 48 smartphones,
• train village level community change agents in 4
areas of Tanzania, and
• generate village and ward level maps and data,
particularly around access to water, health
facilities and land rights.
Any advice appreciated!

18. COMMUNITY MAPPING PLAN

19. AWARDED HUMANITARIAN OPENSTREETMAP MICROGRANT
Overlaying
population
density to water
point locations
to assess
relative need of
applications.

20. HOW YOU CAN HELP..
• Persuade people to help map! Anyone with an internet connection can get
involved! Please tell people you know with an interest in mapping and/or
FGM/health/Tanzania
• Access to smartphones is the limiting factor, so if you have any unwanted
phones we can make very good use of them!
• Any comments, questions or suggestions always welcome!
• Want to know more? Join our webinar on Thursday 18th May 1pm
http://bit.ly/crowd2mapwebinar
• Thank you!
• Janet j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org @crowd2map