Digital Mapping in the Humanitarian context with Janet Chapman (Crowd2Map)

Summary

Crowd2Map Tanzania is an entirely volunteer crowdsourced mapping project that has been mapping putting rural Tanzania on the OpenStreetMap since October 2015. They have been adding schools, hospitals, roads, buildings and villages to OpenStreetMap with the help of volunteers worldwide and on the ground in Tanzania and have trained over 16,000 remote mappers from all over the world to map from satellite images and over 3000 field mappers to add their local knowledge to these base maps, mostly using the free smartphone app Maps.Me.

Opeyemi sat down with the Founder – Janet Chapman to talk about her journey and the impact of the project

Discussion points

Janet talks about herself and her journey
Introduction to Tanzania Development Trust & Crowd2Map
How Crowd2Map was started
How Crowd2Map works.
Digital champions, Weekly report cards & targets quiz, Remote mappers- Tasking managers
GIS tools used and how they are used (On the field and remotely)
How do you keep volunteers motivated?
Discussion around some recent projects Crowd2Map has been involved with
The impact it has had
How people can get people involved (or become a part of the community)
New projects coming underway.
Partnership with NGOs outside Tanzania, East Africa towards the west?
What Janet has learnt over the years in the course of her work.