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.chav...@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.chav...@hotosm.org> > Email: nicolas.chav...@gmail.com > Skype: c_nicolas > Twitter: nicolas_chavent > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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