COUNTRY FOCUS: GHANA
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OUR SYSTEMS HAVE ALSO
MAPPED ALL POWER DISTRIBUTION
LINES, SO WE CAN TELL IF THERE
ANY ISSUES BECAUSE POWER
DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES MAY
NOT HAVE THE DATA.
The mapping and
household data
exercise will include all
of the metropolitan
And municipal areas
in Ghana
June – will include all the metropolitan and
municipal areas in Ghana, which make up
about 62% of the built-up land mass. The
features being recorded are:
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Building and property shells
Street centrelines
Key landmarks and point of interests
Cartographic features traditionally
included in maps such as rivers, wetlands,
political boundaries and county limit
• Household information
The process
The information gathered from the three-year
project will be vital in meeting the challenge
of rapidly shifting demographics by bringing
special intelligent information to the decision
tables of the Ghanaian Government.
Key to the success of the project is the
AdventGIS, an advanced enterprise GIS
Solution developed by Subah and its
partners. AdventGIS is a powerful map-based
mobile work management system that
enables field teams to capture and update
information. It is a single digital repository
for millions of pieces of information about
Ghana and its inhabitants.
Thanks to an extremely robust Search and
Query function, users can enter the name
and location of any street and get ground-
level and satellite views of the site, as well
as data about the buildings, businesses and
people who live in the area.
“AdventGIS was the first of its kind in Africa;
none of the Western African countries have
this kind of solution,” explained Subah. “This
system can be integrated into any kind of
government, whether it’s security or finance.
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Birendra Sasmal, CEO of Subah
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CONSTANTLY
LOOKING FOR
NEW WAYS TO
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REAL PROBLEMS
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So, Government can know how many houses
there are in each municipality or district, who
is staying there and whether they have their
taxes. It is easy data for them. benefits from this type of application and
anybody can use it.”
“And if people subscribe to us, they can
easily navigate and get other information,
like roads. There are eight to 10 kinds of Meanwhile, satellite maps and images
taken by drones and on-the-ground
handheld cameras are used to identify
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