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

Geoserver 2.0 Released

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

This passed me by a couple of days, but the great question most cartographers should be asking is what the heck is new here? For those with no clue on geoserver, it is an opensouce(yea thank God it is) software server. It is written in Java and allows users to share and edit geospatial data. [...]

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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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