These are the thoughts of an African spatialist and geo geek..thoughts on maps, mapping api's, open source gis tools and development frameworks
Well, I am e sorry, as one of my Spaniard friend says since his English is very e-scanty. Instead of spain , he says Espain. Well its been a while since you received any communication from the blog. Well a lot has been happening of late. I got my self involved in some project where [...]
Well, Kenya is positioning itself to be one of the worlds major ICT hubs in Africa. The ministry of Information and communication are busy trying to get Kenyans to create content. Well this being a spatialists blog we also need to look at geo-content. Well does Kenya publish alot of geo-content. To my surprise, Kenya [...]
Well, i am currently working on a project called Drumnet. Drumnet is a platform that seeks to provide farmers with an ecosystem where their input marketing is synchronized by their out put marketing. Kenya is dependent on Agriculture. To provide farmers with the necessary tools to make informed decisions is very important.
The software has a [...]
Google recently held the Google Earth Outreach Programme Trainers of Trainers programme at the ILRI campus. The programme is very helpful. I found it fast and takes one to the basics. So for a techie like me, i had done a couple of their assignments in no time. Well i did learn some useful stuff. [...]
Well, this blog is dedicated to spatial enthusiasts in Africa and all over the world. we we look at how spatial enabled applications, or Geo for that matter can be used to alleviate poverty in Africa and how Africa is making use of this technology. We will also have a look at location based services [...]