[OSM-dev] mapbox satellite black

[Tom Hughes]

On 26/05/13 10:02, Peter Gervai wrote:

> I have tried extensively to figure out the relations between mapbox sat
> imagery announcements (eg. "we have opened up sat imagery for osm tracing",
> "let's use mapbox as default in josm" etc) and reality but found no correlation.
>
> The mapbox tms url in josm (as well as their published ones on their API
> page) serve pure black boxes everywhere. I have not yet seen any data on
> them, no matter what. I have tried areas which are covered on the mapbox.com
> websites (europe as well as siberia, to my much surprise), but blank in JOSM.
>
> Many people have told "you do not need to have a paid subscription",
> including mapbox representatives.
>
> Please share the secret! How do you see anything on mapbox sat layer except
> pitch black? Where? What zoom? Why JOSM imagery provider is set to
> pitchblack-tile-service? :-)

The current URL only appears to provide z12 over most of the world or 
z17 over the US and my understanding from a conversation in IRC is that 
there is, or will be, a new URL at some point for the new imagery.

That said, the existing URL does seem to provide the cloudless imagery 
at low zoom, so I'm also not entirely clear what is going on.

I'm mostly assuming that the next release of iD will have a new URL that 
will make it all work, but I've just checked the source and it doesn't 
seem to have been changed yet.

Tom

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