Over the last month (April), there has been weekly activities with the Local Community aimed at creating an updated map of Sekindi Urban Village Council in Bukasa Parish - Makindye Division. Two members from Local Council 1 and 2, and another 3rd person volunteered to learn the process of making...
Making a map of Sekindi Urban Council (Part One)
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Impressive mapping day at Cavendish University - Uganda
 The world water day by UN water and the mapping day at Cavendish University took place on the same date Friday 22nd March 2013, however, the mapping day was not focused on water related features, but creation of nodes, ways, and polygons that are used while mapping with the OpenStreetMap to... |
Activity statistics on the mapping day in Mukono.
 The mapping day at Uganda Christian University carried out on 2nd March 2013, produced an increase in the number of active members, and nodes created, check the results on the osmstats page.
With some of the students having never used the OpenStreetMap editors like JOSM and Potlatch, they... |
The winners of the Mapping Challenge are...
 Fruits of Thought is happy to annouce the winners of the Mapping Challenge! Joel Ongwech, Julius Iversion and Godfrey Kateregga emerged as the most active of 30 participants.The participants' activity was measured on the following parameters: frequency and knowledge of the Openstreetmap(OSM)... |
Gulu and Lira Tracing exercise at the hive colab
 On Monday 3rd September 2012, mapuganda will participate in a tracing exercise for the towns of Gulu and Lira, this will be an indoor mapping activity where satellite imagery will be traced using the hot tasking manager . The big project is currently being run by the
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Mapping Uganda at Gulu University
 After the mapping challenge on 15th and 16th of June 2012, where 3 winners were promised to join the road trip to visit and map with 5 Universities outside Kampala, mapuganda is proud to announce that we will be travelling to Gulu University on 6th September 2012, where we shall hold a mapping... |
Mapping and GIS for the Energy sector workshop
 Energy facilities in Uganda may have been well mapped by the organisations that have a well planned out business model for energy as a resource. This information is in most cases put together after investing a good deal of time, human resource and financing for such projects. Collecting the data(... |
Mapping at Makere University with GroundTruth Initiative
 In early June 2012 Fruits of Thought co-facilitated together with GroundTruth Initiative a one-week-workshop at Makerere University, in Kampala.
The project, initiated by the World Bank, had as main question how to engage local communities in a process of infrastructure mapping through ICT... |
"Kenyan and Ugandan start-ups make location pay its way"
 On the 17th of July, Fiona Graham, technology and business reporter for BBC News, published an article about technology start-ups in Kenya and Uganda.
Our team, represented by Ketty Adoch and David Ebukali spoke to Ms. Graham at the Hive Colab and found their applications promoted to BBC's... |
Mapping Workshop with Mikel Maron and Erica Hagen at Makerere
 On Wednesday June 20th 2012, Fruits of Thought , together with the founders of Ground-truth Initiative Mikel Maron and Erica Hagen, members from the
Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, and the
World Bank organised a two-day workshop at
Makerere University College of... |