[HOT] Pre-disaster imagery of Pakistan Floods now available from SPOT

Shoaib Burq shoaib at nomad-labs.com
Mon Aug 23 13:00:06 BST 2010


Thanks Klaus, that fixed it!

Odd though, JOSM normally warns about a SRS miss-match - not sure why
it didn't this time

Shoaib

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Klaus Hartl <k127 at gmx.de> wrote:
> Shoaib, was ist possible that your JOSM projection doesn't correspond to
> that one of the wms request? compare the EPSG codes at:
> Edit -> Preferences... -> Map Settings -> Map Projection -> Projection
> method: WGS84 Geographic (EPSG 4326)
>
> Cheers
> klaus
>
>
>
> On 23.08.2010 11:23, Shoaib Burq wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sam and all
>>
>> I am seeing unexplained offsets in the SPOT WMS
>> http://skitch.com/sabman/dugbm/java-openstreetmap-editor
>>
>> I am using the following url in josm
>>
>> http://www.geodatawork.net/__streaminguid.e30dcaa3-5929-4902-9834-12e6f51e1e7b/wms.ashx?request=GetMap&format=jpeg&layers=1896281c-d4a4-4de7-955c-47044ae2d272&srs=EPSG:4326&
>>
>> Without the EPSG it doesn't work for me - anyone else tried it?
>>
>> Shoaib Burq
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>>
>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Sam Larsen<samlarsen1 at yahoo.co.uk>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> This would prohibit  caching/proxying the WMS in tiles using something
>>>> like
>>>> TileCache or Whoots,  meaning (unless I am mistaken) that Potlatch would
>>>> be
>>>> unable to use the imagery  under the given terms.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's unfortunate, i'm running a Cambridge crisis camp lesson on OSM
>>> editing
>>> for Pakistan on Tuesday and was going to get the new editors to start
>>> with
>>> Potlatch using Yahoo imagery. I guess we might have to take a leap of
>>> faith and
>>> get them to go straight into JOSM.
>>>
>>> It would help though if the team can try to complete the SPOT imagery
>>> boundary
>>> that Harry has started, so that if there are some severely affected areas
>>> that
>>> are not covered by SPOT we can get them into some Yahoo tracing in those
>>> areas
>>> using Potlatch.
>>>
>>> I've added it as a task:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2010_07_Pakistan_Floods/Mapping_Coordination/Mapping_Tasks#Mapping_Tasks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hopefully this imagery proves useful in the  base map. Please
>>>>> distribute this
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> information to any interested mappers.
>>>>
>>>> I  just went to
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2010_07_Pakistan_Floods/Imagery_and_data_sources
>>>> and didn't see this there, and by the time I logged in to add it, you'd
>>>> already
>>>> edited the page. :-) Great work on this, Mikel and thanks to both you
>>>> and Jeff
>>>> for making this happen.
>>>>
>>>> Don't forget to tag derived features with the  attribution,  gang!
>>>>
>>>> SDE
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