Crowd2Map is a volunteer run mapping project that has been mapping rural Tanzania since 2015, particularly to help protect girls from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Since then, Crowd2Map have recruited over 1,300 online volunteers and 200 local mappers, and mapped over 1.1 million buildings and 64,000 km of roads and tracks. This has all been done on zero budget. Better maps in Serengeti have helped the number of girls being cut drop from 3700 last year to 1076 this, and the number of girls dying from 12 to 4. This year, Crowd2Map are also very excited to be awarded a HOT Microgrant, which they are using to train village level Community Change Agents in 4 different areas of rural Tanzania. During the webinar, Janet will share the planning for this project, the barriers and enablers we have identified so far, and seek advice from the HOT community.

1. USING LOCAL & SATELLITE MAPPING TO MAP RURAL TANZANIA
& HELP PREVENT FGM - CROWD2MAP TANZANIA
Janet Chapman
j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org

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?
• 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 8200, 2015

4. WE’RE MAPPING RURAL
TANZANIA. WHY?
LOCAL MAPPERS ADDED POINTS OF
INTEREST, CHURCHES, SHOPS,
SCHOOLS, WATER POINTS USING
MAPS.ME ON PHONES…
REMOTE MAPPERS ADDED ROADS
AND BUILDINGS (TASK 1069 –
THANKS PETE!)…

5. INITIAL FOCUS: FIGHTING FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN MUGUMU, SERENGETI
Tanzania Development Trust’s largest project 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.

6. MAPPING ON MAPS.ME
When Maps.Me released
version that allowed
users to add points
directly to OSM we
started training local

7. MAPPING ON MAPS.ME
Ilya Zverev is producing a
cut down English/Swahili
version

8. MAPPING ON MAPS.ME

9. MAPPING COMPETITION!
Sharing the leader board on What’s App
groups was good at increasing motivation

10. COMMUNICATION: WHATSAPP
Posting of updates about
monthly competition
increased motivation.

11. REMOTE VILLAGES ARE STILL MISSING FROM MAPS …
Set up Facebook group to post questions
to local mappers

12. SATELLITE MAPPING VIA HOT TASK MANAGER /project/1788
http://tasks.hotosm.org/
project/1788#
Now 99% mapped, 91%
validated – (thanks
Sophie!)
https://vimeo.com/199314736

13. SATELLITE MAPPING VIA HOT TASK MANAGER /project/1788
Online volunteers trace
roads and villages from
satellite images.
Recent release of Digital
Globe imagery very
helpful.

14. SATELLITE MAPPING EVENTS BY VOLUNTEERS
Launched Crowd2Map
with triple mapping
party in London,
Vilnius and Dar es
Salaam:
Ramani Huria
volunteers mapping
Mugumu on May 7th
2016 in Dar es Salaam.

15. 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.

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

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

18. BUILDING COMMUNITY - SLACK CHANNEL
Slack channel is good for
generating a community, and
for volunteers to ask
questions etc. – if anyone
would like to join please let
me know!

19. BUILDING COMMUNITY – MAILCHIMP EMAILS
Monthly emails to volunteers
to tell them about progress,
events etc.

20. WINS
• Mugumu 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”

21. 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.

23. 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.

24. PEACE CORPS
Trained 50 Peace
Corps Volunteers
on using Maps.Me
to map their
villages via Skype,
May 12th and 13th

25. 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!

26. COMMUNITY MAPPING PLANNING DASHBOARD
Dashboard set up by Gabor
Bakos
http://www.fragosus.pe.hu/J
anet/dashboard.htm

27. MAPSWIPE – PHONE APP TO IDENTIFY AREAS WITH BUILDINGS
Using Mapswipe phone app to identify
areas that had buildings and so
needed mapping before putting task
on Tasking Manager reduced the time
taken.
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2578

28. ORIGINAL MAPPING PLAN
Use Maps.Me to map:
• Village Office
• Schools
• Dispensaries/health centres/hospitals
• Water points
• Mpesa shops
• Legal office
• Churches
• Police stations
• Shops
• FGM Activist Houses

29. AFTER DISCUSSIONS WITH LEGAL OFFICERS IN MASWA YESTERDAY
They also want to collect data on:
• Child labour positions
• Girls hostels
• Number of children in village with disabilities
• Whether they are in school
• What support they get
• School infrastructure
• toilets,
• water supply,
• teachers’ houses

30. CODING HELP REQUEST
1. Clustering buildings into residential areas / villages.
2. Import of high quality / high accuracy curated datasets, e.g.
from academic institutions.
3. Android apps to support mapping in the field for users who
are unfamiliar with smart phones, eg to monitor GPS accuracy
Whatever we do, and whatever we find, will be shared with the
community, through blog posts, documentation on the OSM
wiki, etc. We’ll take care of that, but would like to find volunteers
who can help with the technical aspects.
Please contact Bjoern Hassler bjohas (at) gmail.com if interested

31. STATE OF THE MAP - JAPAN
Egle will present on impact of mapping on fighting FGM
* qualitative study - interviews and narratives from the
affected communities (edited)
* qualitative interpretation of the GIS visualizations
generated during the Summer of Maps
* quantitative study of multisource data sources
concerning FGM

32. ACCESS TO WATER
Overlaying
population
density to water
point locations
to assess
relative need of
applications.

33. SUMMER OF MAPS INTERN JIANTING ZHAO
Past work:
• Analyzed and presented crime incidence
likelihood in Chicago, USA using logistic
regression and ArcGIS
• Measured healthy food accessibility in
Philadelphia, USA using ArcGIS
• Predicted historic buildings demolition
probability in Philadelphia
Will be looking at impact of mapping on FGM
Contact Info: zhao.jianting912@gmail.com
what’sApp: 608-609-3512

34. HOW YOU CAN HELP..
• Access to smartphones is the limiting factor, so if you have any unwanted
phones we can make very good use of them..
• And/or ideas about funding sources!
• Any comments, questions or suggestions always welcome.
• Thank you!
• Janet j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org @crowd2map
• Egle emramanauskaite@gmail.com
crowd2map.org