The drone pilot whose maps are saving lives in Zanzibar #drone #droneday

Via BBC:

Khadija Abdulla Ali is an unlikely drone pilot in the Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar.

Conservatively dressed and from a traditional Muslim background, she is a member of the Zanzibar Mapping Initiative, which since its inception in 2016 has become a poster-child for how African nations can approach the urgent geospatial challenges they face.

The Zanzibar Mapping Initiative is the largest drone mapping exercise in the world, but the project was inspired by one across the water in Dar Es Salaam, in mainland Tanzania, which is partly funded by the UK’s Department for International Development.

Here, the need for better maps is acute because the city is one of the fastest growing in the world, absorbing a thousand people a day.

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