[HOT] Fwd: [OpenStreetMap] Alternative imagery project 2102
Paul Norman
penorman at mac.com
Mon Nov 7 17:40:32 UTC 2016
On 11/7/2016 6:17 AM, Chad Blevins wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks for the note, I created task 2102 and also provided the
> additional imagery service. Unfortunately certain areas of the custom
> image service are offset from Bing and existing OSM data. For this
> reason I purposely didn't load the custom service into the task, but
> offered it in the instructions to supplement clouds, etc. These tasks
> are designed to get new mappers involved with OSM. Offset imagery
> significantly raises the bar of entry and can introduce data quality
> issues.
If the imagery source is usable by everyone I recommend adding it to
https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index and
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Maps so it is available in both iD
and JOSM by all editors.
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