Residing in Kakungulu (Akright City), Wakiso district, Uganda. I am a Belgian by nationality but married to a Ugandan and living with my family in Uganda since 2011.
On a daily basis confronted with the lack of good maps of Uganda I joined OpenStreetMap to implement a huge amount of data collected over the past years, with the only purpose of making it available to Ugandans and the larger community in general. Too much data about Uganda and East Africa is scattered or just "in the minds" of locals, who mostly lack the resources or the skills to implement them. As maps and their applications can improve the livelihoods of people and the countries in general, I found a purpose to contribute, mapping Uganda and East Africa so the information is available and useful to all, for free. Please join since we need many more contributors for this region.
I started contributing to the OSMwiki back in 2017. My major motivation was the lack of a decent overview of all the mapping posibilities in the existing wiki and hard to find mapping strategies. Most of all I found the WikiProject Uganda, my home country, not being maintained by it's founders or the Ugandan community for many years and lacking a lot of information of a broad, beautiful and active community in Uganda. So I decided to actively contribute, keep up to date and extend mostly Ugandan wiki pages, becoming 'the only' administrator for the project, but we are working on that and any help is welcome.
Below you find an overview of the wiki pages I am working on. Most of them are inspired by a long time and broad mapping experience in OSM and a need to improve consistency and quality of the mapping efforts in East-Africa, so the data we all worked on so hard is easier to analyse and can be brought to better use.
The overview contains all the pages I started, on top of that I maintain, add and improve many more wiki pages, of which you can find an overview in my contributions history:
As my contributions grow over time I also started to use subpages for drafts and test, research material etc... under my user account instead of storing them locally... just in case you know.
These subpages are categorised and named as follows:
To include a page in this category add [[Category:Bert Araali]].
/sandbox contains subpages for testing f.i. templates and modules. Categorised with [[Category:Bert Araali/sandbox]].
/template contains subpages with templates in the draft or development state. Categorised with [[Category:Bert Araali/template]].
/module contains subpages with modules in the draft or development state. Categorised with [Category|User:Bert Araali/module
/proposal contains subpages with tagging proposals or guidelines in the draft or development state. Categorised with [Category|User:Bert Araali/proposal
/theme contains subpages with theme pages in the draft or development state. Categorised with [Category|User:Bert Araali/theme
Template for project summaries (Uganda or globally). Displays the project name, administrator, project milestone dates and project state. Links to project overview wiki pages. Used on WikiProject Uganda and project pages in Uganda.
05 July 2017
In use, no proposal or approval. Can be improved for support of translations.
Term translations for the WikiProject Uganda homepage and templates. Derived and an extension of the Template:PlaceLang template with additions for specific and local languages used in Uganda. Contains a list of most languages used in Uganda. Updated on the go with additional translated terms.
Template can be used on all OSM wiki pages for configurable clickable button appearance. Used on WikiProject Uganda, UG Guildeines & Training Workgroup pages to distinguish links within the project from other interwiki links.
Template can be used on all OSM wiki pages for configurable slide bar appearance. Used on WikiProject Uganda, UG Guildeines & Training Workgroup pages to display priorities and in usage flowcharts.
Template can be used on all OSM wiki pages for configurable clickable buttons on a toolbar. Used on WikiProject Uganda, UG Guildeines & Training Workgroup pages to display link to subpages.
Overview page for all the conventions categories concerning Uganda and general instructions how to map and tag specific mapping and tagging categories in the country.
Replacement page for Billboards, information signs and guideposts in Uganda. Billboards in title replaced by advertisement to cover all content more properly. Currently contains instructions for guidepost special cases which is better to split in separate page.
Detailed description of all kinds of barriers in Uganda and instructions how to tag the related infrastructure and routes. Initial page status, currently displays a copy from billboards.
Detailed description of all kinds of public transport (Boda Boda motorcycles, special hire taxis, matatu taxis, busses, trains, airplanes and boats and ferries) in Uganda and instructions how to tag the related infrastructure and routes.
Detailed description of mapping and tagging + link to WIkipedia for Lake Victoria. Still in intial stage, needs update of tagging principle and components.
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OSMwiki back in 2017. My major motivation was the lack of a decent overview of all the mapping posibilities in the existing wiki and hard to find mapping strategies. Most of all I found the WikiProject Uganda, my home country, not being maintained by it's founders or the Ugandan community for many years and lacking a lot of information of a broad, beautiful and active community in Uganda. So I decided to actively contribute, keep up to date and extend mostly Ugandan wiki pages, becoming 'the only' administrator for the project, but we are working on that and any help is welcome.
