Dadaab

More information about Droughts in the horn of Africa on the HOT blog

Dadaab is a small town in Kenya (map) In 2011 it has the largest refugee camp in the world during the droughts throughout the Horn of Africa.

SPOT imagery

Thanks to spot for providing us with special imagery covering Dadaab

source tag to use :

Each time this aerial imagery is used, you have to add the tag source=Cnes / Spot Image

License and use :

Spot Image agrees that OpenStreetMap contributors use this SPOT image and the corresponding online WMS service provided that each contributor acknowledge the following license : http://www.youmapps.org/licenses/EULA-OSM-en.html

This is briefly what is required by the license :

• The SPOT imagery is provided to you, the final user, only to extract information that will be stored in the OpenStreetMap database under a CC-by-SA 2.0 and/or OpenDbL licence.
• Please, fill the source tag with source = “Cnes / Spot Image”
• Do not use, download or redistribute the imagery for any other purposes than what is authorized here.

Spot Image has authorized use in JOSM and Merkaartor but not Potlatch.

Use in JOSM :

With the JOSM Imagery plugin, go to Preferences / Imagery plugin tab / Add and paste the GetCapability URL in the field Service URL :

Image set	Coverage	Use in JOSM
Cnes / Spot Image Date : 2007 and 2009 Use the tag: source=2005 Cnes / Spot Image	Dadaab refugee camp Image boundary	Use the following WMS URL in JOSM : GetCapability: http://ws.spotimage.com/spotlive/wms/588c8a81-c145-4913-8972-3894a023f422? GetMap: http://ws.spotimage.com/spotlive/wms/588c8a81-c145-4913-8972-3894a023f422?FORMAT=image/jpeg&VERSION=1.1.1&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&Layers=spotlive&