[Talk-in] Newly joined this list... Have been mapping for some time

[Tanveer Singh]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 30 October 2008 02:57:56 pm Gora Mohanty wrote:
>> > Another area I have been mapping is Noida.
>> > In future when I have enough GPS trails, I will try to map HP roads,
>> > but due to low resolution of any satellite imagery for that area, its
>> > turning out to be a near impossible task. If anybody has any bright
>> > ideas about how to go about fixing, that, it will be great.
>>
>> Is the imagery that bad that one cannot identify roads even
>> with actual GPS tracks?
>
> here is 'satellite imagery' of the city of Coimbatore - can you see anything?
> This is the situation in 90% of India.
>
> http://openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=11&lon=76.96667&zoom=12
In HP, there are mountain roads, and many times EPE is close to 60-70
meters or even worse(sometimes 120 meters).,
So the actual trails are very off.
I wonder when will we get better imagery for rural india... Is it possible?