[Talk-it] Crowdfunding per OpenStreetMap in Benin: scadenza 1 maggio 2016

Mar 26 Apr 2016 08:12:24 UTC

Segnalo questo progetto dalla lista internazionale di OSM.

Un gruppo di mappatori del Benin vuole acquistare delle mappe ad alta
risoluzione per mappare Cotonou, la capitale. Si tratta di 275km² di
immagini satellitari ad alta risoluzione relative all'area di Cotonou.

Il crowdfunding si chiuderà il 1 maggio 2016, potete contribuire qui:
http://fr.ulule.com/imagerie-cotonou/

Ciao,

C
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: nicolas chavent <nicolas.chavent a gmail.com>
Date: 2016-04-25 16:17 GMT+02:00
Subject: [OSM-talk] Crowdfunding for OpenStreetMap in Bénin : 275km²
high resolution satellite imagery for Cotonou by 1-May 2016!
To: OSM-talk <talk a openstreetmap.org>

Hi all,

Below is the English translation of an email sent first to the
hot-francophone mailing list. It focuses on the first crowdfunding
100% directed to OpenStreetMap in Western Africa. The project is run
by the local OSM association (OSM Bénin) with the support of the
collective Projet Espace OSM Francophone (ProjetEOF) to purchase
275km² high resolution imagery over Cotonou, Benin economic capital.

Enjoy the read and shall you be interested, join us! The crowfunding
closes May1, 2016: in 7 days, we still have to raise 550 Euros (25%).
This is an easy mean to make a big difference and have a huge
OpenStreetMap and opendata impact in Cotonou and Benin by helping
significatively the mapping of Cotonou by the Cotonou mappers who can
then be supported remotely by the global OSM community and the Western
African groups in the first place.

Best,

Nicolas on the behalf of the Association OSM Bénin et the collective ProjetEOF

= Crowdfunding for OpenStreetMap in Bénin : 275km² high resolution
satellite imagery for Cotonou by 1-May 2016! =

Hi all,

This crowdfunding "Imagerie Satellite pour OSM Benin" ([1],[2]) is
lead by the Association OpenStreetMap Bénin (OSMBénin) [3] with the
support of the collective Projet Espace OpenStreetMap Francophone
(ProjetEOF) [4]. It aims at purchasing around 275 km² high resolution
imagery over Cotonou in a license which allows for creating into
OpenStreetMap geographical information  about building, road network,
hydrography and landuse.

The mappers from Benin are active creating geographical data in
OpenStreetMap and thus improving the Free Map of this World via
mapathons [5] field data collections [6], as well as conducting
information and outreach work tied to heavy training in GIS (QGIS) and
mapping with OSM [7]. Unfortunately they are missing on Cotonou high
resolution imagery via the Bing and MapBox layers. This forces the
Benin OSM community to map Cotonou - Benin economic capital - through
field surveys only (GPS, Mobile phones and FieldPapers), a long time
and money intensive work. This takes us back to the early ages of
OpenStreetMap prior its members had access to high resolution imagery
through agreements with Yahoo, Microsoft Bing or benefited from
opendata programs.

Shall this crowdfunding works well, this would be a major breakthrough
for the growth of OpenStreetMap in Cotonou and in Benin, as a matter
of fact, with this imagery purchased, hosted and accesible:
 - Not only the mappers from Bénin would be more efficient mapping
Cotonou and in a position to dedicate more time to non mapping
activities such information, outreach, building partnerships while
continuing and expanding the activities they had been carrying out in
the rest of the country since 2013 as one can read from the
"Infolettre OSM Bénin" [8].
 - But for mapping Cotonou, they could benefit from the support of the
global OpenStreetMap community and specifically the Western African
local groups with whom strong relations have been established and
numerous joint mapping activities have been organized since 2013.

The crowfunding closes in 7 days, we still have to raise 550 Euros
(25%), an easy mean to make a big difference and have a huge
OpenStreetMap and opendata impact by helping significatively the
mapping of Cotonou by the Cotonou mappers with the support of the
global OSM community and the Western African groups in the first
place.

To check the status of this crowdfunding project, stay tuned to the
Ulule platform, the OSM lists, the Wiki site of the OSM project in
Bénin, blogs and social media used by ProjetEOF (@ProjetEOF), OSMBénin
(@OSMBénin) and other Western African OSM collectives.

Nicolas on the behalf of the Association OSM Bénin and the collective
Projet EOF.

[1] : http://fr.ulule.com/imagerie-cotonou/
[2] : https://projeteof.org/blog/crowdfunding-openstreetmap-au-benin-275km%C2%B2-dimagerie-satellite-haute-resolution-pour-cotonou-ce-1er-mai-2016/
[3] : http://openstreetmap.bj/
[4] : https://projeteof.org/blog/projet-eof/
[5] : https://twitter.com/absaliou/status/566060712049770496
[6] : https://twitter.com/agbadonou/status/719455286285570048
[7] : https://twitter.com/agbadonou/status/677513770214801410
[8] : https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:SOTMTG-COM-OSMBJ-contenu.pdf

--
Nicolas Chavent
Projet OpenStreetMap (OSM)
Projet Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Projet Espace OSM Francophone (EOF)
Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20
Mobile (CIV): +225 78 12 76 99
Email: nicolas.chavent a gmail.com
Skype: c_nicolas
Twitter: nicolas_chavent

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