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title: OpenSlumMap | OpenStreetMap Blog
date: 2010-02-01T17:04:30Z
source: http://www.opengeodata.org/2009/12/02/openslummap/
tags: maps
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[Mikel][1] parachuted in to [Kibera][2] last month – a holiday destination known as the "second largest urban slum in Africa" – to make sure it's all mapped. The results have been impressive:
![Untitled][3]
It includes a [website][4], map data of course and social media including [twitter][5] and interviews:
The [press release][6] is worth a read:
_Kibera remains a blank spot on the Kenyan map, though it holds as many as one million inhabitants according to UN-HABITAT. Its limited health and water resources, traffic patterns, and housing layouts remain largely invisible to the outside world and to residents themselves. Though many organizations have collected data on Kibera, the information is not yet shared as a resource for all to use. Map Kibera will fill in this gap by producing free, open-source digital map data using the techniques of OpenStreetMap, a user-edited map of the world. The resulting information will be freely available to residents, NGOs, private companies, and others interested in working with and for Kibera._
This entry was posted in [OpenStreetMap][7] on [December 2, 2009][8] by [Steve Coast][9].
[1]: http://brainoff.com/weblog/
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibera
[3]: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Untitled.png "Untitled"
[4]: http://mapkibera.org/
[5]: http://twitter.com/mapkibera/
[6]: http://mapkibera.org/docs/map-kibera-press-release.pdf
[7]: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/category/osm/
[8]: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2009/12/02/openslummap/ "18:10"
[9]: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/author/stevec/ "View all posts by Steve Coast"
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