WikiProject Kenya

Kenya, Africa

Latitude : -0.35, Longitude : 37.33

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Kenya is a Country in Africa at latitude -0.35, longitude 37.33.

Kenya The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and South Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border.

Contents 1 Progress/Regions/Cities 2 Events 3 Road Classification 4 Rail Classification 5 Data Import 6 Data Sources 7 Aerial imagery

Progress/Regions/Cities

Since 30-Nov-2010 more detailed aerial images from Bing are available. With these images you can add a lot of detail to the map even without a GPS device. The western areas of Nairobi were not covered by LandSat and Yahoo images. They are now covered by Bing images. Great detail also in Mombassa and Nakuru. Generally all of Kenya has more detail in the new Bing images. Update April 2012: The coverage of Nairobi was increased slightly in the Bing images. E.g. Kikuyu and Limuru are now covered with high level of detail.

provinces

• Coast Province (wiki) - Kenya's ocean side - Some progress is visible.
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cities

• Nairobi (map) - Kenya's capital - Good progress and local mapping projects + The "mapkibera" project. Update May 2012: Large bypasses are currently being built in Nairobi, which are not visible in the satelite images (see also Nairobi_Bypasses). As a result at the location of the bypasses the satelite images and "old" GPS tracks have to be ignored.
• Mombasa (map) - Kenya's port - Some mapping done.
• Nakuru (map) - Kenya's agricultural city with lake and national park - Good mapping progress.
• Kisumu (map) - Kenya's city at lake Victoria
• Ugunja (map) - Very detailed mapping of a small town in Western Kenya (also see "others" below)

universities

• University of Nairobi (map) - Largest public university in Kenya
• Kenyatta University (map) - Second largest public university on Thika Road outside Nairobi
• Mombasa Polytechnic University College (map) - Polytechnic university in Mombasa
• Egerton University (map) - Premier Agricultural public University in Kenya.
• Kabarak University (map) - Christian based institution located twenty kilometers from Nakuru

other

• Dadaab - See details of this town, currently host to the largest refugee camp in the world.
• Ugunja ([1]) - Town along Kisumu-Busia Highway, mapping in progress (Ugunjamap project by Ugunja Community Resource Centre's Mapping Desk. http://www.erails.net/KE/charles/ucrckenya/ugunja-map/

Other mapping progress? Describe it here

We'd love more coverage of Kenya. Please feel free to get involved!

Events

Throughout 2010' - Effort to map Kibera, Africa's largest slum. See the Nairobi page for details

Road Classification

(obviously for discussion) User:Bo robert pedersen has started using the official Kenya Ministry of Transport classification dividing roads into five types:

Class A - International Trunk Roads - linking centres of international importance and crossing international boundaries or terminating at international ports

represented in OSM by highway=trunk ways

Class B - National Trunk Roads - linking nationally important centres

represented in OSM by highway=primary roads

Class C - Primary Roads - linking provincially important centres to each other or higher class roads

represented in OSM by highway=secondary roads

Class D - Secondary Roads - linking locally important centres to each other or to a more important centre or to a higher class road

represented in OSM by highway=tertiary roads

Class E - Minor Roads - any link to a minor centre

represented in OSM as highway=unclassified road

Other -Any other non-residential or non-service

represented in OSM as highway=unclassified road

Rail Classification

All of the Kenyan rails are 1000mm narrow gauge. Since 1000mm is the standard in Kenya the railroad tracks should be marked as railway=rail and gauge=1000. This is according to the tag definition in the wiki.

Data Import

• Africover ([2]) and DEPHA ([3]) - have granted us (Development Seed ([4]) - permission to upload their base layers - roads, rivers, rails, admin boundaries. So far, we have uploaded the road shapefile. Outstanding work includes:

• Rivers - Africover
• Admin Boundaries (need to determine current status of OSM dataset before doing anything here) - Africover, The Map Library
• Railroads - DEPHA (The precision is dubious. Between Naivasha and Nakuru the track is up to 200m off course. It would be great if someone would document a train ride with a GPX!)

Data Sources

• Nairobi Land Use and Building Density produced by Columbia University. ODbL licensed, very details land use, etc.

• Virtual Kenya Growing great collection of geographic data sources.

• OpenData Kenya Government OpenData Site. Some geographic data, keep an eye on it.

• International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) A diverse collection of spatial data layers, many of which relate directly to livestock and agriculture. Other layers generated include roads, railways, administrative boundaries, aiports/railways, settlements, census data, poverty, climate, waterpoints and health. Licensing is restricted to non-commercial use only.

• Data Exchange Platform for the Horn of Africa (DEPHA) Provides public GIS data for Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Somalia. Data layers for Kenya include administrative boundaries, hypsography, roads/railways, settlements, health facilities and drainage. Some metadata is not provided.

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Africover) A project aimed at generating a database of GIS layers for the purpose of promoting sustainable management of environmental resources at national, regional and global levels. Kenya data includes administrative boundaries, rivers, settlements, spatially/thematically aggregated landcover, and geomorphology/landforms. We've received permission from Africover to import road, river, and administrative boundary data layers into OSM.

• World Resources Institute (WRI) An environmental think tank that provides a diversity of GIS data largely focused upon poverty and ecosystem analysis. Available resources for Kenya include base data, landcover/landform, elevation, rainfall, biodiversity/wildlife, tourism, agriculture, and population/poverty.

Aerial imagery

See Dadaab where we have a small area available during the refugee drought situation there.