[HOT] [Talk-ht] Haiti: extended high res imagery, hurricane Tomas, and cholera

Kate Chapman kate at maploser.com
Mon Nov 1 18:57:44 GMT 2010


Hi Jean-Guilhem,

In your original e-mail you pointed to imagery that was not previously
available, that was why I was asking.  Just wanted to ensure the
Quickbird imagery was under that license.

-Kate

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <jgc at arkemie.com> wrote:
> Hi Kate,
>
> It is the same data from the January time frame, so the permission given by
> Digital Globe should apply
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Imagery_and_data_sources#DigitalGlobe).
>
> Do you have any reason to think otherwise ?
>
> Jean-Guilhem
>
>
> Le 01/11/2010 19:13, Kate Chapman a écrit :
>>
>> Hey Jean-Guilhem,
>>
>> I don't know if the licensing on the Quickbird is compatible with OSM.
>>  Do you know what the license is?
>>
>> -Kate
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton<jgc at arkemie.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The high resolution satellite imagery that was available after the
>>> earthquake and hosted at Telascience, is available online again. It also
>>> includes imagery that was not available then (as far as I know), notably
>>> many Quickbird images.
>>>
>>> It can be browsed on this page:
>>> http://hyperquad.telascience.org/haiti3/
>>>
>>> And used as WMS layer(s) from this URL:
>>> http://hyperquad.telascience.org/cgi-bin/haiti3?
>>>
>>> (use with the Edit/Preferences/WMS/Add dialog in JOSM)
>>>
>>> Thanks to Winkey and all those who made this possible.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hurricane Tomas is forecast to go over Haiti by the end of the week, with
>>> strong winds and heavy rains:
>>> http://www.tropicalstormrisk.com/tracker/dynamic/201021N.html
>>> Southern regions are exposed to be hit by the hurricane in its full
>>> strength.
>>>
>>> This UNOCHA situation report describes hurricane preparations, and the
>>> on-going cholera response:
>>>
>>> http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MUMA-8AS9T7/$File/full_report.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>> This might be a good time to extend and complete basic OSM mapping
>>> (roads,
>>> villages, rivers, ...), that was mostly focused on the area hit by the
>>> earthquake, and was already useful to the relief effort.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Jean-Guilhem
>>>
>>>
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