[OSM-talk] Crowdfunding for OpenStreetMap in Bénin : 275km² high resolution satellite imagery for Cotonou by 1-May 2016!

[john whelan]

There seems to be fairly reasonable free mapbox imagery of this area
available.  There is a lot of very reasonable African imagery available
that has not yet been mapped.

http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1087 is an example.

Cheerio John

On 25 April 2016 at 10:17, nicolas chavent <nicolas.chavent at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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
> <nicolas.chavent at hotosm.org>
> Email: nicolas.chavent at gmail.com
> Skype: c_nicolas
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