[Talk-ca] Spot5 imagery (geoTIFF) wms serving

Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
Fri Jul 2 11:42:33 BST 2010


Cool,
I starred this message as a new wiki page needs to be made with all
the fun details :-)

Sam

On 7/2/10, Emilie Laffray <emilie.laffray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 July 2010 06:34, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> Is anyone able to host and WMS surve the entire collection of GeoBase
>> Spot5 imagery?
>>
>> In JOSM we cant yet view geoTIFFs so getting a wms hoster to serve all
>> the files is the next best thing.
>>
>> We will be using the Spot5 imagery as a suppliment to the areas where
>> yahoo! Isn't that great, and where we can cross-check when coping in
>> the CanVec data, as CanVec might not be as accurate as it could be,
>> with the aid of more sources.
>>
>
> Do we have the right to use the Spot 5 imagery?
> It was my understanding that Spot had an exclusivity deal with Canada for
> the imagery, so it is possible contractually possible to use them?
>
> Emilie Laffray
>


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