STATE OF MAP 2024, Nairobi Kenya -First Time in Africa🌍

You know that classic email that starts with “Congratulations! We are pleased to offer you…”? Well, on July 1st, I got one of those from Hot Open Summit, awarding me a scholarship to attend State of the Map Global in Nairobi! Thanks Hot Open Summit! Let’s stay connected, we’ve got Manila SOTM 2025 coming up! 🫡🫡🙏🤩

First thing I did? Downloading offline maps of Nairobi with OSMAnd and Maps.me , I had to get those OSM maps in my hand, ready to go. I was feeling chill, knowing I was all set for my trip to Nairobi.

From Dar es Salaam to Nairobi, the journey kicked off with 7 of us heading there in one bus. We had a fun group Hawa next to me, Innocent chilling at the far end, Anastazia, Amour, Kombe, and Benedict. I couldn’t wait to get there, and OSMAnd was the trip MVP, keeping us informed like a road-trip soundtrack “Are we there yet?”

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8Hours on Air 8Hours on Land

Inaugural State Of The Map Conference Nigeria 2022

The thing that made me attend this meeting was to share my experience from a big project that took place here in our country in Tanzania, which was related to the collection of Mills Information to check the level of food and nutrition. It was a Community-oriented project that involved 1091 community members and 1091 motorcycle riders.

TANZANIA NATIONWIDE MILLS CENSUS REPORT, 2022

Apart from sharing our experience, the other purpose of attending the conference was to get different backgrounds from different countries and see what they were doing and if we could do it in our country.

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