OSM Uganda - Index

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Our Mission

The mission of OpenStreetMap Uganda is to have a vibrant OpenStreetMap community in Uganda: united, organised and growing to assist, and get involved in National and global development goals.

OpenStreetMap Uganda Vision

To have a greater capacity for open data, open source, and applying these principles to assist organizations, individuals locally and internationally to manage and solve social, economic and community challenges

Most of our activities are set up around the global OpenStreetMap (OSM) project. OSM is a map and database whereby the stored geographic data is owned by the contributors themselves: allowing everyone to view, create, use this information for free, in new and innovative ways.

Our Blogs

Photo mapping Uganda’s New Cities

OpenStreetMap Uganda in partnership with YouthMappers led a photo mapping project that was designed to enhance the quality and add more detail to the remotely contributed data from Mapping New Cities Project. In early June 2021, OpenStreetMap Uganda trained a team of Youth Mappers from the Geo YouthMappers, Team Good Mappers, Mappers for Life, and Vision Mappers on how to..

December 2021

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Journey of Awania Morish

Five years ago, Morish Awania took up a new role as a security guard in Kampala, Uganda after missing out on an opportunity to complete his high school education due to financial constraints. Then, Morish joined the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT Uganda)* as a security guard two years ago where he developed an interest in OSM as he watched his colleagues taking part in mapping activities. This marked the beginning of a new and uncharted career path for Morish...

December 2021

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OpenStreetMap Uganda Internship

OpenStreetMap Uganda is having an internship program which runs on a cohort basis which runs for three months each. All persons are eligible for this internship. A call is usually put out at the end of each cohort to allow new interns to apply for the internship and the selected individauls can be able to take part in this internship. The internship does not target only the local community but also the internationl community since the internship is online...

March 2022

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