The Mesh of Road Codes in Nairobi and their PotHole Distribution

Maintenance Of Roads: The Role Of #Whatisaroad

There’s birth there’s death and in between there’s maintenance. — Tony Robbins.

Roads are essential for the movement of goods and people from one place to another. They…

How Nairobi Roads were Named

In the process of going through many potholes reports via #whatisaroad hashtag, I did note that roads…

History of Nairobi through Manholes

They say a road is as good as its drainage — and with the drainage comes manholes whose builders placed indelible signatures of their workmanship that has withstood weather and shoe traction. Here is a photo essay of manhole builders that dot the Central Business…

Why can’t we expect more?

One of the things I appreciate most about my job at the iHub is the opportunity to travel. Traveling opens a…

A Theory on Formation of Potholes in Nairobi

A few weeks ago I was invited to provide data analysis assistance to the project #whatisaroad — an initiative to map potholes in Nairobi and engage the county government on infrastructure through data. We set up a mapping party and I volunteered to…

#Whatisaroad: Which Roads Have Been Fixed

Its been several months on #whatisaroad — has there been any impact from the project? Yes — while we cannot take credit for all road repairs, we’ve observed roads that have been fixed within 2 days of reporting potholes. Currently, the average response time…

A Glance at #Whatisaroad Data

My name is Nayla Hatimy and I have been volunteering for the #whatisaroad project on data cleaning. Herein are my thought while interacting with the data.

My initial reactions when going through the data was, Wow! There are many people who are…