My School Today: Crowdsourcing geospatial data for mapping school locations
summary
Project maps school locations across Africa using OpenStreetMap + WorldPop + ArcGIS StoryMaps to generate isochrone rasters for 0–30 / 30–60 / >60 minute isochrones, runs zonal statistics at admin level 1 to estimate school-aged population access, and serves results on an interactive dashboard. Workflow uses OSM feature extracts, Survey123 import guides, StoryMap training, and a reproducible pipeline; since 2021 the dataset grows by about 89,000 school buildings and includes 18 institutional collaborations and a planned September rollout with HOT and Highgate.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:28What is the UNSDSN
- 0:52What are the SDGs
- 2:47Workstreams
- 4:45Project Overview
- 5:47Methodology
- 6:47Why Openstreetmap
- 7:31Call to Action
- 8:07Guides
- 8:29Feedback
- 11:10Partnerships
- 11:23Outro
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