Ordnance Survey International (OSI) will collaborate with the Tanzanian government to improve geospatial capacity in the country, having been chosen to head a project by the World Bank. OSI, the international arm of the UK mapping service, will run workshops in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam covering data collection, management and application skills. The project, which is being funded through an OSI-sponsored grant, aims to help Tanzania develop its national spatial database (NSDB) for use as part of the country's National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NASDI)
Ordnance Survey International (OSI) will collaborate with the Tanzanian government to improve geospatial capacity in the country, having been chosen to head a project by the World Bank. OSI, the international arm of the UK mapping service, will run workshops in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam covering data collection, management and application skills. The government of Tanzania has previously used geospatial data to make improvements to the country's urban resilience and infrastructure.