http://www.kenyaengineer.com/newsdetails.php?NewsID=265&AuthorID=45&CountryID=7&NewsTypeID=16&IssueID=34
Title: The Study for the Establishment of the Spatial Data Framework for the City of Nairobi
Period: December 2002 – March 2005
Funded by: JICA
The City of Nairobi has experienced a rapid increase in population with
an influx of immigrants from rural areas, and the city infrastructure
(water supply, sewerage, land management, waste disposal, health and
sanitation, etc.) is not sufficient to meet the growing demands.
However, the city's 1:2,500-scale maps, the most basic geographic
information, were produced 30 years ago and do not cover the entire
city. As they have not been updated or expanded, they do not represent
current conditions and cannot be used to formulate urban development
plans. In the study, we developed a geographic information system to
manage the city's infrastructure. Specific activities included: i)
aerial photography (scale: 1:5,000; color) covering an area of 702 km2,
ii) ground control point survey (22 points), iii) ordinary leveling
(350km), iv) aerial triangulation (249 models), v) field identification
(585 km2), vi) production of 1:2,500 topographic maps (170 km2), vii) production of 1:5,000 topographic maps (415 km2), viii) consultation on GIS related tasks and design of GIS (15 km2), and ix) GIS database construction.
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
From: Muchiri Nyaggah <muchiri@semacraft.com>
To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Thursday, 25 April 2013, 12:16
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Consulting Services for
Establishment of a Physical
Address System for Nairobi City
Is the current system broken? I've always believed the only problem we have is absent signage but technically there's an existing system.