Africangeogeek, spatial geekery in Africa

African Spatialist and geek to the core

Mimi hapa,

These are the thoughts of an African spatialist and geo geek..thoughts on maps, mapping api's, open source gis tools and development frameworks

Google Map Maker and Licensing Issues

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Well, Google did take us through google map maker, and i though wow, the tool is very nice. I were to work for google as a geo-officer, i would be happier since work has been made easier. I recently say a facebook status update by a geo friend of mine, (Jubal , this is you), [...]

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Googe Earth Outreach

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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. [...]

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