[Talk-in] NRSC Landuse data in public domain

[Shalabh]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com>wrote:

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>> I managed to download the LULC layer but when I try to download in JOSM, I
>> get a message
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>> Sorry! No data available in this scale.
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>> This is for very low zoom levels i.e.1 inch = 1 km
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>> Any idea why?
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>> Shalabh
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> The imagery is for even lower zoom levels since its on the 1:1million
> scale. I find it works only after the 1inch=20km range.Once it loads you can
> disable the automatic downloading by right clicking the imagery layer, so
> that you can zoom in without losing the tiles.
>

Thanks Arun. That solves the problem. However, the question is what use is
the imagery at such low resolution. I can do much better with Yahoo imagery.
Am I missing something?


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> Btw, now the usage policy clearly states that the data is in public domain
> http://applications.nrsc.gov.in/policy.asp
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> I have added the info to the osm wiki:
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> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India/Data_sources#ISRO.2FNRSC_Landuse_Imagery
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