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

Kenya’s Geo Content Creation efforts

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

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 [...]

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MapKibera

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Well, we have hit the ground running. This is an effort to map sub saharan Africa’s largest slum on map. I am very much interested in this project. Not only because of the mapping but also the fact that the information will be very necessary to NGO’s and Government. Well, i remember once the Prime [...]

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