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This website is mainly interesting because of its atlas of Sao Tome and Principe: "Atlas de São Tomé e Príncipe", containing not only topographic maps, but also thematical maps with information baout the population or economy, you will also find historical maps and a bibliography. [editors ilissAfrica]
www.saotomeprincipe.eu
The Ushaidi Platform can be used for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping of a specific topic. It was created as a tool for documenting the post-electoral violent events in Kenya 2008. Meanwhile, a number of other initiatives in Africa use this platform. For a list of projects ... [editors ilissAfrica]
www.ushahidi.com/products/ushahidi-platform
This website was initiated by actor George Clooney and others. It offers real-time satellite pictures and is aimed at documenting and eventually preventing human rights abuses world wide. The hope is that perpetrators might be discouraged knowing that they get "watched". The website also offers reports ... [editors ilissAfrica]
www.satsentinel.org
This site features digital copies of 113 antique maps of Africa and accompanying text dating from the mid 16th Century to the early 20th Century. All scanned maps are authentic and originally collected by the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies (or the Africana Library) at Northwestern ... [according to site editor's information]
digital.library.northwestern.edu/mapsofafrica/
Map Kibera has produced the first complete free and open map of Kibera. In November 2009, local motivated young people learned to create maps using OpenStreetMap techniques. This included surveying with GPS, and digitization of satellite imagery and paper based annotation with Walking Papers. Individuals ... [according to site editor's information]
mapkibera.org
Voice of Kibera is a citizen reporting project based in Kibera, Nairobi (one of the largest slums in Africa). The project is an initiative of Map Kibera and uses the Ushahidi platform to aggregate and map reports. Voice of Kibera aims to give collective global voice to Kibera residents by aggregating ... [according to site editor's information]
voiceofkibera.org
Virtual Kenya is an online interactive platform with related materials for those with no access to the Internet. It is designed to provide improved access to high quality spatial data and cutting-edge mapping technology to allow more Kenyans to use and interact with spatial data in their educational and ... [according to site editor's information]
www.virtualkenya.org
The AFRITERRA Foundation is a non-profit Cartographic Library and Archive assembling and preserving the original rare maps of Africa. The Afriterra library (Boston, Massachusetts) is the most complete assembly in North America for original rare maps focused on early Africa. The 5.000 maps span the period ... [according to site editor's information & editors ilissAfrica]
www.afriterra.org
The website invites users to browse through a wide range of visual and cartographic sources as well as thousands of references to manuscripts and partially rare publications relating to settings in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe as well as several other regions of the World. [according to site editor's information]
www.bmarchives.org/
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