Mapping slums and informal settlements

Collecting resources, projects, stories, experiences and data models related to open mapping and OSM in slums and informal settlements.

Projects and Initiatives

• Map Kibera Groundbreaking project turned organisation focused on mapping in Kibera, Kenya
• Resilience Mappers project Mapping project focused on Informal Settlements in Kawempe Division, Kampala, Uganda, funded by HOT microgrants programme
• Slummapping (formally called National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Research Unit on Improving Health in Slums)
• URBELatam Slum mapping as part of participatory research project. Article on the HOT website.
• Dar es Salaam#Tandale slum World Bank and Groundtruth initiative focusing on mapping in Tandale slum, Tanzania
• Dhaka#Slum mapping Various slum mapping activities in Bangladesh, involving OpenStreetMap Bangladesh, Red Cross and Missing Maps collaborations
• Drone Mapping for Social Good in Nigeria MapMoko project funded by HOT microgrants programme. See CNN article
• Slum mapping in Mahare Supported by Spatial Collective. See Verdict article.
• Shackdwellers Federation Namibia - open mapping to support improved slum upgrading. Project funded by HOT microgrants programme (see application). Project briefing on the HOT website.
• Know Your City 2.0 [to follow]

Other relevant references (talks, blog posts etc)

• Planning with us, not for us: Community informal settlement mapping (panel discussion at State of the Map Africa 2021)

Tagging and slums / informal settlements

• Taginfo: values including the word 'slum'
• Thread: Tagging slum areas in OSM (community forum)

Conversations on the OSM Community Forum

• Related to the keyword 'slum'
• Related to the keyword 'informal settlement'

Slums and maps but not OpenStreetMap

• Caminos de la Villa project. See Bloomberg article
• WARWICK University Slum Mapping 2017 (Ralph and Russ)
  • https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/rcl/
  • https://warwick.ac.uk/research/priorities/sustainable-cities?calendarItem=8a17841a5edc4b19015ee719e4aa63ce
  • (Prof Joao Porto de Albuquerque, Godwin Yeboah PhD, Philipp Ulbrich PhD)

https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/3717

https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/3921

https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/3920

https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/3919

https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/3918

https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/3917

https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/3922 DRAFT

https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/3923 DRAFT

See also

• ground truth principle - If buildings or something else exists then it does not matter what is officially supposed to be there or government claiming that slum does not exist.