A citizen’s guide to the street bumps of Cairo

A project by Alia Aboelghiet and Yomna Hossam

One of the most prominent feautures of the streets of Cairo is the un-designed bumps and holes. Alia and Youma’s project aimed at creating an Other map of Cairo out of a crowd sourced data collected via their mobile application “Khoud Ballak“(Take care). The app works on classifying the level of damage caused by the street bumps and holes and linked to way finding applications like Heremaps and Google maps into four levels. The app also directs the driver to the nearest service garage.

The data gathered through this app led Alia and Yomna to complete their research on the bottom up ways the Carienes have figured out to deal with this prominent problem of poor infrastructure. As a sample for this bigger research they decided to demonstrate their idea by working on Heliopolis.