[kictanet] Consulting Services for Establishment of a Physical Address System for Nairobi City

[Bruce Madete]

I forgot to mention l chair the Taskforce on behalf of the Permanent
Secretary( Principal Secretary)

On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Bruce Madete wrote:

> I chair the Taskforce that is dealing with the National Addresing System
> (NAS). The Taskforce includes among others the City Coucil, CCK,
> PCK, Google, MOIC, Ministry of lands , The then Metrpolitan ministry, oop,
> Central Business District mapIT of South Africa  etc. So far, we are
> collecting data in a section of the CBD which will be incorporated in
> Googles navigation system. We then expect to role out the piloted
> area possibly by the end of May. Thereafter, we expect to cover the rest of
> Nairobi and funds permitting the rest of the country.
> Perhaps this initiative is to compliment the Taskforce efforts! We will
> have to find out from them.
> Madete
>
> On Thursday, April 25, 2013, robert yawe wrote:
>
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> http://www.kenyaengineer.com/newsdetails.php?NewsID=265&AuthorID=45&CountryID=7&NewsTypeID=16&IssueID=34
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> 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
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>  *From:* Muchiri Nyaggah <muchiri at semacraft.com>
> *To:* robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at 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.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Muchiri Nyaggah | LEAD FELLOW, CODE4KENYA
> @muchiri
> Cell: +254 722 506400
> Skype: mrmuchiri
> WWW.CODE4KENYA.ORG <http://www.code4kenya.org/>
>
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> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:54 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
> Ali,
>
>
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