<div dir="ltr">What would be a cool first step is to have a hybrid layer of bhuvan satellite imagery with osm map overlay. This should be ok with proper attribution to NRSC/ISRO according to their terms: <a href="http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/bhuvan/bhuvan_terms">http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/bhuvan/bhuvan_terms</a><div><br><div><br></div><div>Here is the tile request link from the inspector:</div><div><span style="color:rgb(48,57,66);font-family:Menlo,monospace;font-size:11px;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://tile5.nrsc.gov.in/tilecache/tilecache.py?LAYERS=bhuvan_imagery&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&STYLES=&FORMAT=image%2Fjpeg&SRS=EPSG%3A4326&BBOX=95.625,22.5,98.4375,25.3125&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256">http://tile5.nrsc.gov.in/tilecache/tilecache.py?LAYERS=bhuvan_imagery&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&STYLES=&FORMAT=image%2Fjpeg&SRS=EPSG%3A4326&BBOX=95.625,22.5,98.4375,25.3125&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256</a></span><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Sajjad Anwar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@sajjad.in" target="_blank">me@sajjad.in</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Shekhar Krishnan<br>
<<a href="mailto:shekhar@topomancy.com">shekhar@topomancy.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Ishan can you point us to wms or tiles feeds for Bhuvan? Afaik, they are not<br>
> there, but would be hugely useful for all sorts of work.<br>
><br>
> Sajjad's Nepal precedent is a good one to approach ISRO again for CartoSat<br>
> raw data. GN and I want to do this via TIFR, we could also work with Mapbox<br>
> India.<br>
><br>
> I'm not bothered about licensing terms, since these satellites were launched<br>
> with public money, and by right their output is public. :-)<br>
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</span>Agree Shekhar. Just that we'll need this in writing to use with OpenStreetMap :)<br>
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> On 16-May-2015 11:03 am, "Sajjad Anwar" <<a href="mailto:me@sajjad.in">me@sajjad.in</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Dear GN,<br>
>><br>
>> > We checked Bhuvan today to get some idea. We found that they also use<br>
>> > Id editor for community contributions.<br>
>><br>
>> This is interesting. I couldn't find though. Can you share a<br>
>> screenshot? This is particularly interesting for some of us who are<br>
>> working to make OpenStreetMap software available for outside the<br>
>> ecosystem.<br>
>><br>
>> ><br>
>> > We are trying to get the high resolution satellite maps from ISRO for<br>
>> > school and college mapping projects that we are currently doing.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > If <a href="http://openstreetmap.in" target="_blank">openstreetmap.in</a> would like to get the satellite maps from<br>
>> > Bhuvan/ISRO, what do we need from them? Do they have an API to pull<br>
>> > them as background maps? We may need them mostly while editing. Since<br>
>> > Id editor is already used by them, I am wondering they may already be<br>
>> > using OSM software stack.<br>
>><br>
>> Couple of things to keep in mind here -<br>
>><br>
>> 1. We'd need open licensing, or it should say that tracing for<br>
>> OpenStreetMap is permitted.<br>
>> 2. The layers should be in Web Mercator projection. There are quite a<br>
>> few Bhuvan layers that are not.<br>
>><br>
>> ><br>
>> > Was there any history of osm community seeking data from ISRO?<br>
>><br>
>> Recently, we got in touch with ISRO for high resolution post<br>
>> earthquake imagery for Nepal. They shared the raw data and some of us<br>
>> at Mapbox processed it to make it available on OpenStreetMap -<br>
>> <a href="https://twitter.com/geohacker/status/593114332164001792" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/geohacker/status/593114332164001792</a><br>
>><br>
>> Sajjad.<br>
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