One week in Lubumbashi (DRC)

In conjunction with MSF-UKJorieke Vyncke

Context HOT activation in south and north Kivu

(December 2012)

Minova before and after 4 days

Followed by the creation of a local OSM community in Kinshasa (Claire Halleux)

What happened in Lubumbashi?• Collaboration HOT, MSF-UK & Univ of Lubumbashi• Focus: on the field data collection• Street names, names and limitations of neighbourhoods

and the most important points of interest• Field Papers, GPS and smartphone!

Locally, but also a globally!

• Preparation: Mapping party Berlin (Shoaib Burq)• Pierre Béland and Andrew Buck gave us remote

technical support + organised the mappers of the HOT world with help of the Tasking Manager

• After 4 days already 60 mappers from all over the world and 106 000 objects added

• Also African OSM communities started to map for Lubumbashi: Burkina Faso, Senegal and Togo

• And now… mapathon in London!

Mapping for Lubumbashi in Hungary

Burkina Faso Togo

Reflection• One week with a lot of energy, but it was

really short (sustainability?) • The main focus in Lubumbashi was data

collection on the field, so what about editing? • ‘Normal’ obstacles: internet connection

(expensive and not stable), technical issues, security issues, question of volunteering, etc.

• Field Papers and OsmAnd• …

Thanks a lot for your huge support !!!