Since several weeks, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has been focusing on enhancing the map of Ivory Coast in fear that the situation might get worse with the current political tension in the country. In particular, the map of Abidjan has been greatly improved in the past weeks. Most of the tracing has been done with Bing aerial imagery since Microsoft recently made it available for OSM tracing, but the problem is that it does not cover the whole area of Abidjan.
To answer this need of data sources other than Bing imagery, Astrium-GEO has also offered SPOT satellite imagery over the region of Abidjan to OpenStreetMap. The accuracy is 5 meters, and a little ground mist is visible. However, linear features like roads can be easily identified. This will be especially useful to map out the North and West of Abidjan.
The source tag to use is "2005 Cnes / Spot Image", and this imagery is allowed in JOSM and Merkaartor but not Potlatch. The license agreement is here : http://www.youmapps.org/licenses/EULA-OSM-en.html
The Wikiproject Ivory Coast, with more details, is here : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/En:WikiProject_Ivory_Coast as well as the post on the HOT blog : http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/2010/12/ivory-coast-post-electoral-crisis/
To answer this need of data sources other than Bing imagery, Astrium-GEO has also offered SPOT satellite imagery over the region of Abidjan to OpenStreetMap. The accuracy is 5 meters, and a little ground mist is visible. However, linear features like roads can be easily identified. This will be especially useful to map out the North and West of Abidjan.
The source tag to use is "2005 Cnes / Spot Image", and this imagery is allowed in JOSM and Merkaartor but not Potlatch. The license agreement is here : http://www.youmapps.org/licenses/EULA-OSM-en.html
The Wikiproject Ivory Coast, with more details, is here : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/En:WikiProject_Ivory_Coast as well as the post on the HOT blog : http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/2010/12/ivory-coast-post-electoral-crisis/
