Im Furaha L Mrema, working under Humanitarian open Street map as digitizer,i conduct many projects from different s countries like Congo,Burundi Uganda and Tanzania which based on different s things like a projects of Ebola,floods,min grid etc. i also joined in different s groups which found under HOT like soil analysis and data recording, im fill very precious to work under HOT.

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Gwantwa Andrew, Junior Supervisor at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) local partner, Open Map Development Tanzania (OMDTZ)

I joined HOT as a volunteer mapper in March 2015. I was one of the first few students selected from Ardhi University to work with this organisation, when it started operating in Tanzania. My first professional engagement with HOT was in a project called Community Mapping for Flood Resilience in Dar es Salaam city. My responsibilities in this project revolved around collection of spatial data on housing and related infrastructures in twenty six wards in the city. Later on in this project, i played training and supervisory role on new students who joined the project. At the end of this project, we produced maps showing all flood prone areas in the surveyed wards. The maps were meant to be used as important tool for flood prevention and management at community level.

I also worked in a project on Malaria Elimination in Zimbabwe. My tasks in this project was to map all buildings targeted for malaria prevention intervention. Mapping in this project was done remotely using open source software namely JOSM and id Editor. This project was successfully accomplished in 2017 and it was handed over to the government of Zimbabwe for other actions.

My third major project that i participated at HOT was a Mini Grids project Tanzania. The purpose was to identify all buildings not connected to the power supply through the main national grid in order to plan for them to access power from solar and other renewable Mini Grid electrification. I successfully supervised a team of 78 mappers and the work was accomplished within 5 months on July 2018.

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Hi, this is a brief explanation of my contributions to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) basing in Tanzania.

In July 2017, it was my pleasure to join HOT as a volunteer mapper where I was able to contribute to the project of Dar Raman Huria through tracing roads and buildings. The project aims to create map data which will be potentially useful in helping communities to prepare and escape from floods.

In the mid of February 2018, I was appointed to be a supervisor in digitization team. Within my role as supervisor, I have been ensuring the quality of the data provided by digitizers through revising their works done every day, creating tasks to be performed, taking statistics of digitized buildings or roads, preparing the payment sheets for digitizers after every two weeks, and reporting to the project manager about the progress of the work. As a supervisor, it is also my responsibility to guide the team and to understand the reasons behind why we are digitizing.

Here are the projects I worked on as a supervisor, Minigrid Tanzania, Minigrid Zambia, METEOR project and roads coverage in Indonesia.

Feel free to contact me through my email(s) doricelucas2@gmail.com or doricelucas24@gmail.com for any query.

a GIS and Data Manager at OpenMap Development Tanzania (OMDTZ) based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania My Journey started as a volunteer mapper in July 2015 with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team - HOT right after graduating from University of Dar es Salaam. My first professional engagement with HOT was in a project called Ramani Huria, a project based on Community Mapping for Flood Resilience in Dar es Salaam city. During this project, I experienced data collecting using GPS and field papers at different wards affected by Floods across Dar es Salaam. Also experienced in using JOSM editor for cleaning and uploading data to OpenStreetMap as well as remote mapping. I also worked in a project on Malaria Elimination through remote mapping of Many countries such as Zimbabwe, Mozambique, etc.

in 2017, I started to work with OpenMap Development Tanzania - OMDTZ mapping supervisor and continue working on Ramani Huria with the responsibility of training University students on using open source software like JOSM, OpenDataKit, OpenMapKit, QGIS, etc. for data collection, cleaning, analysis, and visualizations. Also supervising field data collection for flood resilience in Dar es Salaam city. Also, I have been working on different projects such as Data Zetu (empower citizens through the use of open data), Minigrids, and other projects with the aims of making sure efficiency in data collection, cleaning, analysis, visualization, and sharing through many open source software.

Since 2021, I have been working as a GIS and Data Manager, overseeing all GIS and data-related issues to ensure accurate datasets are created and disseminated to required stakeholders.

Feel free to contact me through my email(s) at amournyl925@gmail.com or amour.nyalusi@omdtz.or.tz for any query.

Dar es Salaam is one of the fastest growing cities in Africa, with an annual population growth of over 5.7%. In 2002 there were approximately 2.5 million inhabitants, increasing to 4.4 million in 2012, and currently estimated at over 5.5 million.

Severe flooding in December 2011 - January 2012 displaced at least 10,000 people in Dar es Salaam and caused 40 deaths. Heavy rains in April 2014 also led to widespread flooding and infrastructure damage. Climate change is expected to exacerbate these trends, as Tanzania’s coastal region is likely to experience heavier, more concentrated rainfall events. Increasing frequency of floods, landslides, and other hazards is expected to impact the most fragile, unplanned parts of the city.

In 2015 HOT began an initiative to mapping infrastructure data in various parts of Dar es Salaam. During this project I participated as a community map surveyor using GPS, Field paper. and JOSM software.

Now in its second phase, Ramani Huria 2.0, which began in 2017, is combining exposure data and flood hazard data to conduct risk analysis of potential future disasters. The team are using community mapping techniques to engage with local leaders and teach community inhabitants free, open source data collection tools from their smartphones. The data collected is enabling people across all levels of society to improve flood mitigation plans and raise awareness and resiliency to natural threats. This time I participated as a GIS expert dealing with cleaning drainage data from the site.

I Neema Alphonce, a mapper at Humanitarian OpenStreet Map Tanzania(HOT) and Open Map Development Tanzania (OMDTZ) . I started working since July, 2017as volunteer and participating in different projects such as Dar es Salaam Flood Resilience, Minigrid Tanzania, Zambia and still participating in Western Tanzania Roads project which is in progress. In January 2018 i became a mapper supervisor which i was responsible to provide training on how to map or digitize and to do validation to new mappers. So i gained much experience in digitization and validation of buildings and roads. For more information contact me on my email ( alphonceneema15@gmail.com ) thank you.

i joined Humanitarian open streatmap team [HOT] December 2017 as a Digitizer. And as a member of this organization i have got a lot of different skills following different projects that we have already done and that we are still doing.Some of the project that i effectively participated in doing are Mini grid Tanzania,Mini grid Zambia and other projects.

my e mail address is athumaninuru120@gmail.com.

Hey! it is Charles Frank, i have been working cooperatively with Humanitarian OpenStreet Map Team(HOT) #OMDTZ as a youth mapper since early last year.I have been a part and parcel of various projects like Minigrid Tanzania up to recently Western Tanzanian Roads. It is my pleasure to become an expert of digitizing buildings as well as roads via editing tools such as JOSM and Id Editor.I expect to become even much better competent mapper by interacting with my leaders and fellow mappers on learning new tactics simultaneously,let us share skills and thoughts via my email: charleskanjunju@gmail.com

Did you ever come across wiki pages like Proposed Features/UUID or Yahoo! Aerial Imagery and wondered what to do with the information as the pages are not “current” any more?

As one could have guessed, there are basically two approaches on these cases. One approach is to store current information only and consequently delete information as soon as it becomes historic. The other approach aims at documenting the full history of all tagging and all applications ever used.

The strongest reason for the first approach is the argument that historic information might be confusing for the readers and might lead to “wrong” tagging or poor decidions regarding software deployment. Referring to my first example, one can see that the page features two red boxes. Both state that the proposed feature is abandoned. There are links to Query-to-map and Humanitarian OSM tags (marked as outdated itself), but a link to the general concept page Permanent ID featuring the background as well as an overview of the approaches is missing. On the other hand, this page serves as a documentation for the keys uuid:place and similar. This information might be lost if someone would delete the page or radically change its content (in the latter case you could still retrieve the content from the page’s history in case you know the page name).

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Relation 3444486 is out dated. Do not know whether to fix it up or create a whole new one. The relation was created by someone in Denmark. Need to figure out which way to go. Also want to change a side trail in relation so it stands out. Looking for someone locally to help either fix relation or create new one.

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My name is Samwel Kyando, I became part of the team in 22 march 2018, of which i was trained on how to use JOSM as a tool for mapping,

Till today I’ve contributed mapping different countries like, Minigrids Tanzania, Minigrids Zambia, mapping for ebola (UGANDA), Road mapping UGANDA, missing maps:AL Abdali Amman, for more info about my edits please review https://tasks.hotosm.org/user/Samwel%20Kyando?task=637#bottom

2019 is a new beginning for me to keep clicking and to keep mapping for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team..

Thanks

A year has gone since i joined as Humanitarian digitizer at Humanitarina OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and contributed to the extent in different projects specifically on digitizing buildings and roads.

Today I’ve added more highways which were not digitized before..I’ve also modified some highways classification and align the road properly with the imagery.

Generally my plan is to be more active and get involved in more Hotosm projects.

Thanks.

hi! am jamal amani, am working with Open Map Development Tanzania #HOT Tanzania since last year as a volunteer and i have worked through different projects like #mingridTZ, #mingridsZambia,#Ramanihuriaphase2, #METEORProject….etc. Always am proud to be part of osm family. Here is my email accounts:kingjemo2@gmail.com

I’M working with humanitarian open street team map,as a digitezer i’ joined humanitarian last year in 2018, i’m very happy since my first day to digitize a buildings and roads in humanitarian open street map,i added few buildings in different project, according to the instruction ,but now i’m digitize or mapping roads in this project of Western Tanzania Roads.i’m planning to be very active now on and to get more involve with the Osm community. monyodamon84@gmail.com

Hi! My name is Janeth Mlinga. A mapper at Humanitarian Open Street Map Team (HOT)TANZANIA (OMDTZ). Started working with this team since 27th February 2018 and participate some of projects such as 1.MINIGRID TANZANIA 2.ZAMBIA MINIGRID 3.UGANDA REFUGEES MAPPING and, 4.WESTERN TANZANIAN ROADS. all the above project roads and buildings mapped and validated. (jmlinga87@gmail.com)

I’ve recently passed the two million additions to the map milestone.

In other news, I just finished adding all vehicular highways and residential areas in the East Timorese exclave SAR of Oecusse, which was previously seriously undermapped.

Both pretty satisfying.

I am Catherine, working at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Tanzania (OMDTZ). Improving and mapping roads and buildings in different projects within my country and some other different countries. my email naymersamson@gmail.com

hellow,My name is Asibwene Lyison Kalulunga.I”m mapper in Humanitarian OpenstreetMap Team in Tanzania(HOT)since 15 december 2017. In my work i have experience with mapping and validation and tracing the roads since the day i start until today… here is my email asibwenekalulunga@gmail.com