Photo mapping Uganda’s New Cities - Facebook Community Impact Micro-grant

OpenStreetMap Uganda in partnership with YouthMappers led a photo mapping project that was designed to enhance the quality and add more detail to the remotely contributed data from Mapping New Cities Project. In early June 2021, OpenStreetMap Uganda trained a team of Youth Mappers from the Geo YouthMappers, Team Good Mappers, Mappers for Life, and Vision Mappers on how to...

Supporting Noble Farms Uganda Ltd in Gulu

OpenStreetMap Uganda in collaboration with OpenGIS Uganda is working with Noble Farms Uganda Limited, private agricultural training and inputs provider to introduce open mapping GIS tools and technology to improve efficiency in their work.Noble Farms Uganda Limited provides farmers with inputs that include seeds, agricultural machinery like tractors, and training on post-harvesting. In order to effectively plan and target farmers' needs, Noble Farms with support from OSM Uganda and OpenGIS Uganda are embarking on setting up a farmer profile and needs a platform....

Drone training with one of the staff from NEMA

OpenStreetMap Uganda carried out a demonstration drone training with the GIS staff from National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) to equip them with the skills to use drone technology to improve monitoring and conservation of the environment across the country.....

Flood Mapping Using Drone Technology Ntoroko

OpenStreetMap Uganda with support from the Uganda Red Cross Society from the 25th to the 28th of the November 2020 set out to assess and determine the extent of the floods in Kanara Subcounty and Kanara Town Council in Ntoroko District just south of Lake Albert using GIS, Drone Technology and Photogrammetry. The goal of the mission was to document the effects of the floods and the affected towns using Drone Technology and Interviews with the affected Communities....

Uganda Open Mapping Program/Open Cities Kampala Kampala

In Uganda’s capital, increasing urban populations and changing land-use patterns are creating new challenges for mapping risk in Kampala. The World Bank is currently supporting the Government of Uganda (GoU) through several mechanisms to increase resilience in Kampala and other urban areas by improving infrastructure and developing capacity. A common goal of these programs is to improve access to baseline data and risk-related information to quicken decision making processes..

Clean Streets Kampala

This was a project carried out in conjunction with Open Data for Sustainable Development in Africa(AODC). Clean Streets is an OpenStreetMap based project that was first initiated in Los Angeles in the United States of America and was later extended to African cities upon its success and resilience benefits in USA. Kampala city was one of the three cities in Africa where the project was chosen to be carried out including Bo in Sierra Leone and Accra in Ghana.

State of The Map Africa

State Of The Map Africa 2017 took place 8th - 10th July in Kampala, Uganda. Check out the blog for the first ever OpenStreetMap conference in Africa. SoTM photos can be found Here

Uganda Crowdsourcing Non-Camp Refugee Data

OpenStreetMap Uganda partnered with HOT to carry out this program which involved acquiring spatial data in and around refugee settlements to better understand the refugee crisis and also assist partners working in the refugee crisis with information Management and data collection tools with OSM at the core.

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Where is my Transport

Where is my Transport is a company from South Africa, dealing in transport data. They partnered with Map Uganda for information about routes and the cost.