OpenStreetMap
This week (20th-25th/ November) decided to add a missing area on to the OpenStreetMap, and I zeroed down to a village located north of Busitema University hidden by the Busitema Forest.
This village is called [Habuleke] (osm.org/#map=15/0.5576/33.9858) and visited it once during the Mapillary Challenge in May 2017.
An escalation of violence in South Sudan since July 2016 has led to a large population movement into the north of neighboring Uganda. An estimated rate of between 2,000 and 3,000 displaced persons cross the border into Uganda each day. In a rapidly developing situation such as this, it is vital that accurate and up-to-date mapping information is available to allow the ERU to respond more effectively and efficiently.
On that note am glad to be contributing to this project. [forexample] (https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3468)
I have had a chance to contribute to mapping against malaria campaign, through mapathons and in my personal free time. And during this campaign have been able to contribute in different countries of Africa and south Asia. Namely, Mali, Laos, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lesotho, Cambodia.
During this time I managed to be part of the top contributors (4th) and also managed to contribute on a single project 840 tiles as a milestone. This has been one of my drives to keep contributing as I feel happy giving a hand where I can. You can watch this 4minutes video that I made to teach how to map buildings in Mali [Click here] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYcqZny7qBo)
[For more of details about my contribution to Mapping against Malaria Elimination] (https://tasks.hotosm.org/user/klain890)
This is a project that was pioneered by the leadership of 2016/17 Good Mappers as a YouthMappers Chapter at Busitema University. The Chapter looked at how they can involve the community around them to know what they do, thus teaching OSM to Students of Secondary schools so that by the time they join University they can contribute to the cause and also apply the knowledge they learn in real life due to their young and creative minds.
I became involved in the project by first surveying the surrounding community for potential environment to be able to TeachOSM. Looking at Internet Access, having a computer Laboratory as these would aid the performance of the project.
We were able to narrow down to Tororo Girls School as our first secondary school for the project before we can venture to other surrounding secondary schools.
Currently we carry out weekly training at the school with the help of the ICT department and Geography Department of the School.
[For more about the project please follow this link] (http://mapuganda.org/recent-activities/how-youth-mappers-at-busitema-good-mappers-are-taking-osm-to-secondary-schools-in-eastern-uganda)