Know Your City 2.0

Know Your City 2.0 is a collaborative initiative led by Slum Dwellers International (SDI), local slum federations, HOT, the University of Chicago and supported by many other local organisations and OSM communities.

Background

The original Know Your City project was launched in 2014 by SDI and aimed to create community owned data that would support slum dweller communities in improving their settlements through analysis, advocacy and action. The data can be explored at the Know Your City dashboard and powers Million Neighborhoods Africa, the first-ever map of population and urban development at the street-block level for all of sub-Saharan Africa.

The revitalised project aims (hence the 2.0) to update these data sets and incorporate open mapping technology and workflows and open data (including OpenStreetMap data and imagery hosted on OpenAerialMap) to enhance slum communities' ability to generate and use geospatial and other datasets to improve lives and livelihoods in their communities as well as respond to the worsening local effects of climate change.

HOT's role in the project

HOT is working within this coalition to ensure that mapping needs are supported through the best possible technology, skills and methods and that slum communities are able to generate the data, analysis and products that they need to achieve their goals.

Tools deployed to this end include drone imagery acquisition, OpenAerialMap, fAIr, the HOT Tasking Manager, and the Field Mapping Tasking Manager.

OpenStreetMap changesets will include the hashtag #KnowYourCity.

Organised editing

Know Your City Sierra Leone

The organised editing in Freetown, Sierra Leone is a collaboration between HOT, OpenStreetMap Sierra Leone and CODOHSAPA

Project number	Project name	Priority	Location	What to map	Imagery Source	Project Mapping Status	Project Validation Status
16666	KOLLEH TOWN SLUM MAPPING PROJECT - FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE	Published	Freetown, Sierra Leone	buildings	Drone imagery (custon)	16% Complete	0% Complete