[josm-dev] Adding your own imagery

[Paul Norman]

> From: Russ Nelson [mailto:nelson at crynwr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 6:32 PM
> To: kristy van putten
> Cc: josm-dev at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [josm-dev] Adding your own imagery
> 
> kristy van putten writes:
>  > This is my first time on this list, so apologies if I am asking the
> same  > question as someone else.  I have a team of GIS people
> digitising in  > OpenStreetMap and we have found that there is no
> imagery for a section of  > the area we really need to digitise.  I have
> got imagery from a LiDAR  > survey that we (Australian Government) has
> full IP rights to. The format of  > the imagery is ECW.
> 
> It's been a day since you asked this question, and nobody has responded.
> I suspect that's because of the image file format. I'm pretty sure that
> it's a proprietary image format. According to this Wiki page:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW_%28file_format%29 , there's an SDK
> which is open source. It's likely to be possible to use that SDK to
> convert the images into bigger files in a more standard file format. Or
> ... use the SDK to add support to MapProxy so it can read the files and
> re-encode in a more generally usable file format.

gdal can read .ecw and through it mapserver, and through it mapproxy can
serve it.

It could also convert .ecw to geotiff or some other more common format.

All the options for dealing with a large imagery involve setting up a server
to host it. If you're able to grant the necessary permissions you might be
able to get someone in the community to host it. I know Grant Slater hosts
AGRI imagery for Australia.