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Oct. 1, 2026
Remapping Freetown's Central Business District
Six months before anyone drew a single building outline, Freetown was mapped from above. Residents used drones to map over 72 square kilometers of the city, gathering high-resolution aerial imagery. This imagery became the foundation for re-mapping the central business district.
This is the story of the Freetown City Regeneration Project, and the people who carried it out: the council officials who needed better data to plan for their city, the technical partners who worked with them to create a fitting methodology for this, and the community mappers, who actualized it all.
Nov. 6, 2026
Flying from Freetown to Waterloo - The increasing value of community drone mapping in Sierra Leone
The first city built the capacity. The second proved its value. How community-led drone mapping became more sustainable between Freetown and Waterloo, Sierra Leone.
