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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.

When I arrived at the meeting, I was overjoyed to see a crowd of people from different countries There were two platforms for the meeting. More than 150 individuals joined us virtually through Zoom, and over 60 came in person from various nations, including Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Hong Kong, Cameroon, London, Nigeria etc. In actuality, numerous nations had attended the gathering.

The first State of the Map Conference in Nigeria in 2022 was amazing since there are so many applications, and it was packed with community speeches and presentations about how Open Street Map communities are using data to address issues in their areas The speeches I attended were all really good, but my favourite were

1. Leveraging on Open Geo-Data (OSM) for Improved Census Data Delivery, Kumbirai Matingo

2. Maps Showing Spatial Distribution of Hand Dug Wells in Part of Ido Local Government Area, Ibadan, Oyo State Liwhu Mary

3. Open Mapping: A Humanitarian Response to Flood in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Bafamodei Hopeful

4. COVID-19 Humanitarian Response in Nigeria: Unique Mappers Approach Victor N. Sunday and Christopher N.Okocha

Regarding the issue of food, Nigeria is blessed to have many foods and various fruits, so if you have 1.5 dollars you can eat food and be fully satisfied. At the meeting, I wanted to be local, I liked to eat food that is prepared locally. For Example Garri with Okrah soup mix with Periwinkles, Bole and Okba are very nice foods.

Garri with Okrah soup mix with Periwinkles, Okba

My earnest gratitude thanks to Victor Sunday National supervisor of the Unique Mappers network . for his tireless efforts and support.

I also acknowledge my earnest gratitude to my Organization OpenMap Development Tanzania for supporting me at all times.

I also acknowledge my earnest gratitude to Uchechi, Amob, Hopeful, Light, and Travel grants Team for dedicating their precious time to assist me and for being hand in hand from the beginning to the end.

Equally important to Unique Mappers Networks (Port Harcourt, LionMappers, Yora, Kwara, Enugu, Uniziki, and Uzmappers just a few to mention ) deserve my special gratitude for their readiness for cooperation that they offered to me during the conference and also their readiness.

Indeed, my journey to Nigeria has been very fruitful, I have learned a lot

Thank you very much

Johanes Petro Machela

Project Manager/GIS and Tech

+255716957044

johanes.petro@omdtz.org