AFGEO is Zambia’s premier service provider in geographic information system project (GIS) management and digital data collection. AFGEO offers services in data collection, cleaning, analysis, quality control, map making, and developing tailor-made spatial solutions. AFGEO’s team of GIS experts are from or have been working in the region, for over 10 years. Clients include governments, a private sector, implementing partners, and donor organizations.

What is GIS?

Simply put, GIS or Geographic Information System is a system that stores and displays information that has a location.

Some commonly known Geographic Information Systems include car navigation systems, Google Earth and Maps, and even the telephone book due to address information.

A GIS stores information about the world as a collection of layers that can be linked together by a common locational component such as latitude and longitude, a postal zip code, census tract name, or road name. These geographic references allows a client to locate features on the earth’s surface for analysis of patterns and trends. Dozens of map layers can be arrayed to display information about transportation networks, hydrography, population characteristics, economic activity, political jurisdictions, and much more.

Find out how you can use smart phones, GPS, commercial or open source GIS software for your business/project?

The core AFGEO team consists of:

  • International GIS experts who have worked in the field of GIS in Southern Africa for 10+ years.
  • Programmers who have over 20+ years of programming experience.

The AFGEO team strives to improve the lives Africans by using state of the art technology, and cutting edge expertise to create tools that are specifically tailored to the developing country environment.

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What products can AFGEO DELIVER?

All Things (Geo) Data

  • Data collection
  • Data cleaning
  • Data analyses
  • Data quality control
  • Data maintenance and updates
  • Databases
  • Data licenses

Capacity Development

  • GIS training and/or
  • On the job GIS training for your staff
  • Training in the use of GPS devices including smartphones and tablets

Map Making

  • Digitize hard copy maps
  • Map making
  • Transformation of tabular data with addresses or other location information into maps
  • Area cartograms
  • Atlas creation, thematic maps, reference maps

Planning Tools

  • Participatory mapping and planning with community members
  • Prioritization of extension measures
  • Spatial monitoring and evaluation
  • Change detections and temporal analyses

Mobile Data Collection and Use Tools

  • Digital data collection app design
  • Live updates of data to the cloud
  • Mobile decision-making tools
  • Spatial feedback to guide navigation, logistics, and prioritization
  • Dashboards for easy data interpretation

Other

  • Project management of GIS components
  • Map inserts for your project proposals
  • Which GIS system works best for your project (commercial or open source software?)
  • Scenario Visualization
  • Real-time, georeferenced project updates
  • And much, much more…

Who is using GIS?

  • Business owners in order to find most profitable business locations, beneficial transport routes, alternative transport routes, employee/asset tracking, customer profiling.
  • Government capacity building, utility and disaster mapping, spatial planning, and information policies.
  • Project managers to collect baseline data, for participatory mapping with communities, and for monitoring and evaluation.
  • Urban and rural planners for infrastructure planning and mapping, urban and rural development options, demographics
  • Environmental planners in order to map species, for resource management, impact assessments, historic/time analyses, change detections, climate change mapping.
  • Real Estate agents feature their houses on online platforms.
  • Lodges/Game Reserves owners like to offer guests maps of the area with trails, locations of animal sightings, and animal movements.
  • Tourists love city maps, hiking and biking maps
  • Health care providers use GIS for disease mapping, health care planning, medical distribution, risk mapping, and outbreak control
  • Mining companies locate minerals, plan logistics, and resettlements areas
  • Disaster Managers develop hazard maps, warehouse locations, infrastructure maps, risk and vulnerability mapping
  • Marketing specialists showcase projects or businesses on maps and online mapping platforms