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Mapping Ethiopia
in Real-Time
A national open-data movement powering humanitarian action, mobility, and resilient communities — built by mappers, students, and partners across Ethiopia.
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One platform, four surfaces
A geospatial platform built for builders
Everything is connected — community, data, projects, and events feed each other.
Community
Mappers, students, volunteers, and chapters across the country.
OpenData portal
Open, downloadable, API-ready geospatial datasets for Ethiopia.
OpenProjects
Humanitarian, mobility, climate, and civic mapping in the field.
OpenEvents
Mapathons, workshops, field missions, and the State of the Map.
OpenLive activity
The map is moving — right now
A real-time pulse of edits, verifications, datasets, and people joining the OSM Ethiopia community.
- Edits, datasets, and verifications stream in continuously
- New volunteers and students onboard every week
- Visible to everyone — open by default
Live activity
OSM Ethiopia · feed- 2m ago
1,248 building footprints added
Borena Zone
- 5m ago
New water point verified
Yabelo · @hawi
- 9m ago
12 mappers joined mapathon
AAU campus
- 14m ago
Transit dataset v3 published
AddisMapTransit
- 21m ago
Field mission scheduled
Omo Zone · Jun 4
Projects
What the community is mapping
From drought response to public transport — open mapping with real impact.
Climate Resilience
Drought Mapping in Borena
Field and remote mapping of water points, settlements, and pasture conditions to support drought response in southern Ethiopia.
Open project
Mobility
Public Transport Mapping
Mapping bus and minibus routes with the Ministry of Transport, IceAddis, YouthMappers, and AddisMapTransit.
Open project
Food Security
Food Security in Omo Zone
Workshops and community mapping to strengthen food security data, markets, and livelihoods in the Omo Zone.
Open project
Anticipatory Action
El Niño Early Warning Mapping
Flood preparedness and anticipatory action mapping to help communities prepare for El Niño-driven shocks.
Open project
Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding & Reconciliation
Mapping and community engagement supporting reconciliation, social cohesion, and inclusive recovery.
Open project
State of the Map · 2023
OpenMapping for Communities
Mappers, students & partners from across Ethiopia
30+ contributorsAddis Ababa
The community
Built by people, powered by maps
OSM Ethiopia is a national network of mappers, students, volunteers, and institutions — meeting in the field, on campus, and at our annual State of the Map gathering.
- Active chapters in 12+ universities across Ethiopia
- Annual State of the Map Ethiopia gathering since 2023
- Connected to the global OpenStreetMap movement
What's next
Upcoming mapathons & events
Join a mapathon, training, or field mission near you.
MapathonMay 18, 2026
Addis Ababa Community Mapathon
A one-day mapathon focused on improving public transport coverage in Addis Ababa.
Addis Ababa University
RSVP Field MappingJune 2–6, 2026
Borena Field Mapping Mission
Community field mapping of water points and pastoral routes for drought response.
Yabelo, Borena Zone
RSVP TrainingJune 21, 2026
Participatory GIS Training
Hands-on QGIS and OSM training for university students and local NGOs.
Jimma University
RSVP School OutreachJuly 9, 2026
School Outreach: Open Mapping 101
Introducing high-school students to OpenStreetMap, GIS, and mapping for community impact.
Bahir Dar
RSVP Field notes
Stories from the community
Project recaps, training notes, mapping stories, and partner highlights.
Humanitarian MappingApril 12, 2026·6 min read
Mapping water points across Borena: a community-led drought response
How OSM Ethiopia volunteers and Borena communities used open mapping to identify and verify water access during the drought.
TransportMarch 28, 2026·5 min read
Opening up Addis Ababa's transit routes with AddisMapTransit
Inside the collaboration mapping minibus and bus routes to make public transport in Addis more legible to riders.
EducationMarch 4, 2026·4 min read
Youth Mapping Week brought 600 students into open mapping
A recap of campus mapathons, workshops, and field exercises across nine Ethiopian universities.
Trusted by ministries, universities, NGOs, and global partners
ASARECA
Digital Earth Africa
TomTom
U.S. Embassy
ESRI
WRI
USAID
GIZ
UN OCHA
Ministry of Transport
IceAddis
YouthMappers
AddisMapTransit
HOT
ASARECA
Digital Earth Africa
TomTom
U.S. Embassy
ESRI
WRI
USAID
GIZ
UN OCHA
Ministry of Transport
IceAddis
YouthMappers
AddisMapTransit
HOT
Voices
From the community we serve
OSM Ethiopia turned mapping into something my whole community could do — and now we can plan with our own data.
Hawi A.
Community organizer, Borena
Joining OSM Ethiopia connected me to mentors, mapathons, and real projects that shaped my career in geospatial.
Daniel T.
GIS student, Addis Ababa University
Their participatory approach is exactly what humanitarian programs need — local, open, and rigorous.
M. Kebede
Program lead, partner NGO
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Map Ethiopia with us.
Join 3,500+ mappers, students, and partners building the open geospatial backbone of the country.