Conferences / State of the Map
State of the Map Africa 2026
Jun 26–28, 2026 · University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Conference
- State of the Map Software engineering
- Dates
- Jun 26, 2026 – Jun 28, 2026
- Venue
- University of Dar es Salaam
- Place
- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- 2025.stateofthemap.africa
- Recorded
- 7 sponsors · 80 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Originally planned as SotM Africa 2025 (wiki/pretalx slug '2025'), held 26-28 June 2026 at the University of Dar es Salaam. Theme: Mapping The Future: Connecting Communities and Fostering Collaboration. Organisers: OpenMap Development Tanzania, GeoTE, University of Dar es Salaam. Organizers published a statistics deck (Canva) not machine-readable. Speakers: every scheduled session from the pretalx schedule export (talks, workshops, academic track where published separately), one row per speaker per session; affiliations taken from each speaker's pretalx bio where it states an employer/university, else null.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early Bird | $75 | — | 2025.stateofthemap.africa | |
| Regular | $150 | — | Full access to three days | 2025.stateofthemap.africa |
| Business | $350 | — | For organizations and businesses | 2025.stateofthemap.africa |
Sponsors 7
Platinum 1
Other 2
- GeoTE · Organisers
- University of Dar es Salaam · Organisers
Speakers and talks 80
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abdoul A. Oubeidillah | — | Speaker | Leveraging Drone-Based LiDAR Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction in Comoros: DAYIMA’s Experience | — |
| Abdul-Nayar Rabiatu Sungumu | University of Cape Coast | Speaker | Using mobile mapping tools to document and improve community visibility in the Damongo district, Ghana | — |
| Amos | — | Speaker | Maps and Voices: Strengthening Women’s Participation in Open Mapping in the DRC | — |
| Amour Nyalusi | — | Speaker | Closing the Feedback Loop: Do Communities Ever See the Maps? | — |
| Andreas Hernandez Denyer | — | Speaker | MapYourGrid, an initiative to map the world's electrical grids | — |
| Andy Asamoah Bimpong | — | Speaker | Participatory Mapping on Flood Hazard and Vulnerability at Dutch Komenda, a Coastal Community in Ghana. | — |
| Asha Mustapher | Open Map Development Tanzania | Speaker | Centering Communities in Early Action Local Knowledge: Open Data, and OSM in Practice | — |
| Bapaala Alhassan Zuliatu | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology | Speaker | The Role of OSM Data in Enhancing Cycling, an Environmentally Friendly Means of Transport | — |
| Benedcto Adamu | — | Speaker | Cost-Effective Strategies for Expanding Open Mapping in Resource-using street level 360 Image | — |
| Binyam Dele | — | Speaker | AmbaLay Maps: Building Africa’s Local Mapping Infrastructure for Resilient Services and Community Empowerment | — |
| Blessings Chiepa | — | Speaker | Mapping Malawi’s Momentum: Reflections on first SoTM Malawi conference and Growing Open Mapping Communities | — |
| Caleb Cheruiyot | — | Speaker | IDEAMAPS: Participatory Approaches in Research. | — |
| Calvin Amevienku | — | Speaker | Improving accessibility mapping in Upper East, Ghana using Mapillary and OpenStreetMap | — |
| Chifuniro Baluwa | — | Speaker | Low-Cost Participatory Mapping Using KoBo Toolbox, YouthMappers and Community Health Workers for Emergency Response | — |
| Christiana | Green Girls | Speaker | GIS in Climate Education; Using Mapping to Build Next Generation of Climate Change Leaders | — |
| Daisy Jelagat | — | Speaker | Building Smart Web Maps with OpenStreetMap: Integrating uMap, Overpass Turbo, and Open Data | — |
| David Luswata | Kobo | Speaker | Open Source Offline Mobile Data Collection with KoboToolbox | — |
| Edith H Kalagho | Drone Link Malawi | Speaker | SPATIAL GIRLS NETWORK A PRODUCT OF OPEN MAPPING COMMUNITY | — |
| Elia Dominic | Open Map Development Tanzania | Speaker | Bridging Gaps: Collaborative Mapping of Sub-Catchment Furrows for Improved Irrigation Planning | — |
| Emanuel Kombe | — | Speaker | Community-Driven Data: How Local Knowledge is Reshaping Urban Waste Systems | — |
| Erick Mnyali | — | Speaker | Integrating OpenStreetMap into Academic Curricula through Collaborative Field Practical Training in Tanzania | — |
| Ezekiel Edgar Kiariro | GeoTE | Speaker | Integrating OpenStreetMap into Academic Curricula through Collaborative Field Practical Training in Tanzania | — |
| Ezekiel Edgar Kiariro | GeoTE | Speaker | Mapping for Pangolin Protection: Using OpenStreetMap for Conservation in Tanzania | — |
| Geoffrey Kateregga | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Speaker | Building Bridges, Not Silos: Unifying Community Engagement with HOT's 'Connect & Learn' Program | — |
| Guy Pacôme Adingra | Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny | Panelist | We are young, we are mappers, The YouthMappers have a future | — |
| Hemed Lungo | — | Workshop | Beyond Flat Maps:Using QGIS and Blender for 3-D Geovisualization | — |
| Hillary Musundi | Namisindwa District Local Government | Speaker | From the Field to the Map: Strengthening Local Government Decision-Making Through Advanced OSM Mapping | — |
| Ibrahim Mshashi, Swaleh Mkangwa: | — | Speaker | Advancing Mapping Through GeoAI: Esri’s ArcGIS Innovations and Opportunities for the African Mapping Community | — |
| Isah Abdul-Azeez | — | Speaker | Unlocking New Frontiers in Earth Observation: Agentic AI for Geospatial Workflows in Africa | — |
| Jacques Landry ATANGANA | Cameroon Cadastral Corporation | Speaker | Building Tomorrow’s Cadastre from the Ground Up: Soa’s Participatory Open-Source Approach | — |
| Johanes Petro, Anna Carol | Open Map Development Tanzania | Speaker | Ramani Zetu, Sauti Zetu Project; Local People, Local Devices, Open Mapping | — |
| John Green Otunga | The Sentinel Project | Speaker | Una Hakika: Adopting Open Technology for Peacebuilding in Kenya | — |
| Joseph | University of Ibadan | Speaker | Cartographic analysis of cultural significance of toponyms and positional accuracy of OpenStreetMap in Oyo State | — |
| Joy Unene | University of Zambia | Speaker | Little Mappers, Big Impact: Introducing OSM to grade school learners | — |
| Julian Psotta | HeiGIT | Speaker | Adaptive Humanitarian Mobility: Dynamic OSM-Based Routing with Critical Mission Data | — |
| Kelvin Boateng | — | Speaker | A Comparative Analysis of Land Surface Temperature Estimation Between the Dry and Wet Season | — |
| Kingsley Chika CHUKWU | TomTom | Speaker | How TomTom is Partnering with OSM Communities to Build Better Maps in Africa | — |
| Kitgak Simon | Kitron Green Initiative | Speaker | Empowering Climate Resilience in Rural Nigeria through Open Mapping and Community-Led Geospatial Data Collection | — |
| KPOGNON Yaovi Ricardo | — | Speaker | Cartographie et outils ouverts pour la résilience climatique | — |
| Laura Mugeha | — | Panelist | OSMF: What it is, What it does, How YOU can get involved | — |
| Laura Mugeha | — | Workshop | Can You Build OSM Communities Without Burning Out? | — |
| Laura Mugeha | — | Panelist | We are young, we are mappers, The YouthMappers have a future | — |
| Levi Szamek | HeiGIT | Speaker | Adaptive Humanitarian Mobility: Dynamic OSM-Based Routing with Critical Mission Data | — |
| Levi Szamek | HeiGIT | Speaker | From street-view-imagery to actionable data: experiences from mapping waste in Dar es Salaam | — |
| Levi Szamek | HeiGIT | Speaker | New insights into global mapping with the updated ohsomeNow Stats | — |
| Maurine Oyugi | Planate Management Group | Speaker | Mapping Day-care Facilities to Support Working Parents: A Community Mapping Initiative in Makongeni, Kenya | — |
| Melanie Eckle-Elze | HeiGIT | Speaker | Empowering Humanitarians with GIS: A Collaborative Approach through the IFRC GIS Training Platform | — |
| Melanie Eckle-Elze | HeiGIT | Workshop | Sketch Map Tool: Enabling the capture of local knowledge- supported by OSM analytics and AI | — |
| Micheal Kaluba | OpenStreetMap Uganda | Speaker | Bridging Knowledge and Maps: The Intersection of Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap in Africa | — |
| Michelle Schmitz | DevGlobal | Speaker | An Application of OpenStreetMap to Identify Underserved Populations for a Study in Lagos State, Nigeria | — |
| Mikko Tamura | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Speaker | Growing the Open Mapping Gurus: Expanding Local Leadership Across Regions | — |
| Mikko Tamura, Nisreen Mahmoud, Jessie Pechmann & Bernard Heng | — | Workshop | HOT Tech Tools: End-to-End Solutions for Humanitarian Mapping Workshop | — |
| Mikko Tamura, Nisreen Mahmoud, Jessie Pechmann & Bernard Heng | — | Speaker | Why Does Land Use Data in OpenStreetMap Matter for Disaster Recovery? | — |
| Mikko Tamura, Nisreen Mahmoud, Jessie Pechmann & Bernard Heng | — | Speaker | Damage Mapping in Conflict Zones: Lessons from Myanmar and Lebanon | — |
| Moutari Gogé Mahamane Moustapha | — | Workshop | Session de formation sur la prise en main du logiciel Qgis | — |
| Msilikale Msilanga | University of Salzburg | Speaker | From Ramani Huria to the Climate Risk Database: Keeping Open Community Data Alive | — |
| Nisreen Mahmoud | — | Speaker | OpenStreetMap for Conflict Response and Urban Resilience in Sudan | — |
| Nwosu Obinnaya Chikezie Victor | — | Speaker | Enhancing Community Resilience and Disaster Preparedness through AI-Assisted Open Mapping in Underserved African Regions | — |
| Oreoluwa Adebayo | WeCollect | Speaker | Mapping Food Prices & Measuring Impact: Using Mobile Tools and Spatial Sampling Across Nigeria | — |
| Osunga Michael Otieno | — | Speaker | Visualizing Air Pollution and Health Risks in Lagos with R Shiny | — |
| Osunga Michael Otieno | — | Speaker | Understanding barriers to accessibility for persons with disabilities in Freetown's informal settlements, Sierra Leone | — |
| Patrick Ken Kalonde | Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme | Speaker | Drone-based tree identification and counting method in a carbon offsetting project | — |
| Rafiu Omomayowa | — | Speaker | Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover Changes and its Impact on Water Quality | — |
| RAQUEL DEZIDÉRIO SOUTO | IVIDES | Speaker | Collaborative mapping for DRR with OpenStreetMap, uMap and WordPress. Case study: Maricá (Brazil) | — |
| RAQUEL DEZIDÉRIO SOUTO | IVIDES | Speaker | weeklyOSM-stats: Analysis of the weeklyOSM profile over the last ten years with PostgreSQL | — |
| Rebecca Chandiru | — | Speaker | Self-Paced Open Mapping Learning Pathway for Youth Leadership and Community-Driven Development in LearnWorld | — |
| SALVATION PERE OKOH | University of Port Harcourt | Speaker | Open Mapping Initiative in Nigeria: Challenges and Personal Experiences in Volunteer Mobilization for OpenStreetMap | — |
| Sanaa Benhamouche | — | Speaker | Participatory Mapping for Women-Friendly Cities in Algeria: Lessons from the Madinatouha Project | — |
| Séverin Ménard | Les Libres Géographes | Speaker | OSM Skeleton: Completing the Backbone of OSM Data | — |
| SotM Africa Organizing Committee | — | Panelist | Birds of a Feather (BOF) | — |
| SotM Africa Organizing Committee | — | Speaker | Self Organized Sessions | — |
| SotM Africa Organizing Committee | — | Panelist | From Volunteers to Professionals: Careers in Open Mapping | — |
| State of the Map Africa | — | Panelist | OSMF: What it is, What it does, How YOU can get involved | — |
| State of the Map Africa | — | Speaker | Growing the Open Mapping Gurus: Expanding Local Leadership Across Regions | — |
| Tarcizio Kalaundi | Trocaire | Speaker | GIS in Climate Education; Using Mapping to Build Next Generation of Climate Change Leaders | — |
| Tarcizio Kalaundi | Trocaire | Speaker | Facing the Future: Potentials of OSM Africa in Advancing Geospatial Science | — |
| Umar Katongole | Makerere University | Speaker | Exploring the use of Earth Observation Data in Mapping Plastic Pollution in Urban Environments | — |
| Victor N.Sunday | Unique Mappers Network | Speaker | Open Mapping Initiative in Nigeria: Challenges and Personal Experiences in Volunteer Mobilization for OpenStreetMap | — |
| Wonderful Kunje | Malawi Red Cross Society | Speaker | Anticipatory Action in Practice: Mapping Vulnerability and Triggering Early Cash Disbursement in Malawi | — |
| Zaina Rashidi Ally | — | Speaker | Mapping with Communities: Driving Local Solutions through Participation in Tanzania | — |