A podcast for the African geospatial community
Geospatially Africa began with a simple conviction: the people mapping, measuring, and imagining Africa's future should not be footnotes in someone else's story. Their work should be heard—in their own voices.
Hosted by Iniobong Benson, with Opeyemi as cohost
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Discover OpenAerialMap (OAM), the “OpenStreetMap of imagery,” in this 2023 episode with HOT’s Christiana and DK. Learn how OAM empowers drone pilots and satellite providers to share openly licensed imagery for humanitarian mapping, from the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake response to Tanzania’s flood risk assessments.
S3 · E3 · Guest: Christiana and DK · July 6, 2025
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Kart provides distributed version control for geospatial and tabular data. Kart stores geospatial and tabular data in Git, providing version control at the row and cell level, it also provides repository working copies as GIS databases and files, and allows edit to be done directly in common GIS software without plugins.
S2 · E9 · Guest: Hamish · November 28, 2022
As a young African geospatial professional, you can get access to a wide range of ESRI tools including ArcGIS Online, Story Map, Survey 123, and many more, as well as powerful datasets from various partner organizations including Africa’s very own data cube – Digital Earth Africa - absolutely free of charge forever (no strings attached)
S2 · E8 · Guest: Pauline Okeyo · October 27, 2022
Building your portfolio as a geospatial professional is important, even more so are the experiences that make up the portfolio. In this episode we sat down to talk about volunteering as a way to improve your skills and build your portfolio.
S2 · E7 · Guest: Iniobong Benson · August 1, 2022
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Every episode is also filmed and published as a full video conversation, with the maps and data the guests are describing shown on screen.
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Iniobong Benson
Host
A a geospatial analyst and earth observation specialist with an MSc from the University of Tartu & ITC, University of Twente. I work at the intersection of remote sensing, hydrological modelling, and spatial data science, with a focus on Africa. I also founded and host Geospatially Africa, a podcast dedicated to geospatial innovation across the continent.
Opeyemi Kazeem-Jimoh
Co-host
Geospatial Data Analyst and Cartographer with interests in disaster risk reduction through geo-hazard mapping, GIS for business, and promoting sustainable futures across Africa.
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