Daisy Jelagat
I am a Geospatial Engineer in training and I am currently tinkering with GeoAI. I love Geospatial data and telling stories with it, especially through interactive story maps that highlight climate adaptation and mitigation efforts across Africa. Beyond the screen, I’m deeply involved in Kenya’s tech and geospatial communities, where I contribute by organizing events, writing technical content, and fostering partnerships and stakeholder engagement. I believe in the power of open data, open-source tools, and inclusive collaboration to drive sustainable development. When I'm not mapping or coding, you'll likely find me in a book club, where my latest obsession is Russian literature, or at a live music show. Whether through code, stories, or conversation, I’m always exploring new ways to connect people, places, and ideas.
Intervention
A practical project to demonstrates how to use the following tools to build lightweight interactive web-based maps: uMap, Overpass Turbo, and OSM data. The session is meant to explore creating story maps, thematic maps, or spatial data driven web portals using open-source tools and open data. Through the talk, we will explore writing a query on Overpass Turbo, based on custom tags and geographic boundaries, export & refine that data in various formats for use in web projects, visualizing the data using uMap, adding layers, custom styles, and user interaction and finally embed the map on a website or integrate it with other tools (like Leaflet.js) for added functionality. During the talk, we will also discuss real-world use cases and explore how these tools can support participatory mapping, civic tech, storytelling, and planning across African contexts.