[Talk-ca] New Lower Mainland Imagery sources

Paul Norman penorman at mac.com
Tue Sep 4 09:32:32 BST 2012


Good news: I figured out why I couldn't layer the imagery properly to make
one good layer for the entire region so hope to have the combined layer
running this week.

Bad news: I found out I need to recache everything to fix a quality problem.

> From: Paul Norman [mailto:penorman at mac.com]
> Subject: [Talk-ca] New Lower Mainland Imagery sources
> 
> After some technical and legal work, I now have a number of imagery
> layers hosted on a rented server.
> 
> These layers cover from Vancouver to Hope in 20cm or better and Lions
> Bay to Pemberton as 40cm or better. 10cm imagery is available for
> Vancouver, Richmond, Ladner, West Delta, the North Shore, Whistler and
> Surrey.
> 
> Most of the imagery was taken in 2009, but Surrey is from 2011.
> 
> I've prepared a page with links to the imagery and Potlatc2 and JOSM
> URLs at http://imagery.paulnorman.ca/tiles/about.html
> 
> Some layers may be slow initially loading at high zooms as they may need
> to fetch from a remote server.
> 
> An example of two layers from there and Bing is
> http://imagery.paulnorman.ca/tiles/surreyexample.png. Starting in the
> top left going clockwise the layers are Surrey2011, DataBC
> bc_gvrd_east_2009 and Bing.





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