OMDTZ Community Impact Microgrant
In Africa, OSM and open mapping groups have grown tremendously over the last few years. This has occurred as a result of the expanding need for geospatial data and an understanding of how mapping may…
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Community Mapping Urban Risks in Mwanza
Under the broad framework of the Tanzania Urban Resilience Program (TURP), Spatial Collective (SC) was commissioned to carry out the Community Mapping of Urban Risks in Mwanza. To complete the project, Spatial Collective partnered with…
Pangani Basin-Usa River Water Abstraction Data
The research done in the Kikuletwa Catchment area pointed out some coordination challenges between authorities in charge of water resource management. River committees formed mainly by smallholder, farmers have been operating independently and neither communicate…
Morogoro Mapping Services
Tanzania is the most flood-affected country in East Africa, and city governments across the country are underprepared to meet the challenges of urbanization, including the increased vulnerability to climate-related hazards. Tanzanian towns and cities have…
Baseline Assessment of Litter: Bagamoyo
In most developing countries, solid waste is often disposed of in unregulated dumps, openlyburned, and thrown into water bodies. These practices have serious consequences for health, safety, and the environment. Proper solid waste mechanisms are…
Mapping service for Opportunities and sustainability of Urban greening, Sustainable urban drainage system, and open space development in Dar es Salaam
Since 2015, the World Bank has been supporting efforts to collect geospatial data forurban resilience through the Tanzania Urban Resilience Program. In 2022, Open MapDevelopment Tanzania, in collaboration with Resilience Academy, worked withuniversity students to…
Tanzania Nation-Wide Mills Census
The World Food Programme (WFP) in Tanzania funded OpenMap Development Tanzania(OMDTZ) to conduct a detailed mapping survey of mills across Tanzania and collect informationabout mills including locations, distribution, capacity, fortifications, and commodities milled byspecific machines.…
Open Skies Fellows: African Tech for African Data
The Open Skies Fellowship has successfully established a foundation for technology fellowship in East Africa through a unique agile management and selection process. Over the 32 months of its implementation, the fellowship has supported a…
Meta Roads Import Project 2019- 2023
OMDTZ was in partnership with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) from January 2019 to August 2023 in the implementation of the project in Tanzania and is providing machine-generated road data editing, general validation, and submission…
Baseline Data Collection on Solid Waste Services in Dar es Salaam
This is the ongoing project with the objective to undertake a baseline assessment by gathering information on solid waste collection and cleaning services in the Dar es Salaam region within 41 urban wards. This…