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Qwajo OSM

Mapper since:
November 16, 2016
Last map edit:
August 12, 2025
  1. HOT Data Quality Intern 2020 & 2022

  2. Member of The HOT Global Validators Team since 2020

  3. University of Cape Coast Youthmappers President 2018/2019

  4. Humanitarian Mapper since 2016 (https://tasks.hotosm.org/contributions)

  5. My Heat map (http://www.yosmhm.neis-one.org/?Qwajo%20OSM)

  6. My OpenStreetMap Contributions (http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Qwajo%20OSM)

Major Projects worked on

  1. 2025 30 Days All African Mapathon with TomTom and OpenStreetMap Ghana

  2. The EL NINO Mapping Campaign In collaboration with Open Mapping Hub Eastern & Southern Africa and FAO provides map data for early warning flood systems in Kenya, Ethiopia & Somalia

  3. Inter-University Mapathon - Ghana (https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/17089/tasks/?filter=MAPPED&page=4)

  4. Africa Rising Project on Sustainable Agriculture in Northern Ghana - 2018 (https://www.youthmappers.org/post/2019/03/26/Feeding-Ghana-through-the-eyes-of-female-farmers-and-efforts-of-open-data)

  5. Yemaapi Ghana, 2018 (https://mapillary.github.io/mapillary_greenhouse/yemaapi-ghana/)

  6. Clinton Malaria Elimination Mapping Challenge, 2017 (https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-0508youthmappers%E2%80%98mapping_to_end_malaria%E2%80%99_challenge_round_2_results)

  7. Urban Flood Mapping [Adantan-Legon Hills] - Ghana https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/21060

Latest Diaries

Diary Entry The OSM Explorer

Using OpenStreetMap (OSM) and JOSM (Java OpenStreetMap Editor) has completely transformed my perspective on places in Ghana. What used to be just n...

Comments 1 comment Date February 04, 2025

Diary Entry Keeping the Interest of Volunteerism. (Especially for Youthmappers)

As it stands, I believe the need to rekindle the interest in volunteerism among members of the open mapping community is a necessary evil. This bel...

Comments 1 comment Date June 06, 2023

Diary Entry Long Live HOT Data Quality Internship

It was indeed a great privilege to be among the 28 selected interns from the 1008 applications received by HOT from 81 countries. I must say, spend...

Comments 1 comment Date March 09, 2023

Diary Entry Can an Area Ever Be Considered as "Mapped"

Have you ever taken a look at your own mapping done over a year or two ago? If you haven’t yet done that, take a few minutes and check out some old...

Comments 1 comment Date January 08, 2023