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🇲🇱 Bamako

OpenStreetMap Bamako Decentralized Mapping

HOT's 'Community Mapping for a Resilient Bamako' project (2020-2022) trained residents to map flood-prone drains and waste sites using JOSM, OpenMapKit/ODK, Mapillary and QGIS, alongside a separate MapSwipe campaign in which over 100 local participants (45% women) logged 1,500+ volunteer hours across 6 million satellite imagery tiles — part of the World Bank's Africa Cash for Digital Work Program — to locate solid-waste dumps across more than 450 km² of the city.

Completed 📅 2020–2022

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below — how this works · 🔎 Last verified

📡 Data & IoTFlood resilienceWaste & recycling
Evidence🏛️ Official
Scale🏙️ City-wide

📖 Terms in this entry: Pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) · Pneumatic waste collection

Sources

↗ OpenStreetMap Mali (community)Collaborative geospatial infrastructure database.
↗ Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (partner)Page of a partner involved in delivering the project.
↗ Missing Maps (partner)Page of a partner involved in delivering the project.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “OpenStreetMap Bamako Decentralized Mapping” — Bamako, Mali. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/bamako-digital-urbanism/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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