[Talk-in] Id editor on Bhuvan

Sajjad Anwar me at sajjad.in
Sat May 16 06:27:04 UTC 2015


On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Shekhar Krishnan
<shekhar at topomancy.com> wrote:
> Ishan can you point us to wms or tiles feeds for Bhuvan? Afaik, they are not
> there, but would be hugely useful for all sorts of work.
>
> Sajjad's Nepal precedent is a good one to approach ISRO again for CartoSat
> raw data. GN and I want to do this via TIFR, we could also work with Mapbox
> India.
>
> I'm not bothered about licensing terms, since these satellites were launched
> with public money, and by right their output is public. :-)

Agree Shekhar. Just that we'll need this in writing to use with OpenStreetMap :)

>
> S.K.
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> On 16-May-2015 11:03 am, "Sajjad Anwar" <me at sajjad.in> wrote:
>>
>> Dear GN,
>>
>> > We checked Bhuvan today to get some idea.  We found that they also use
>> > Id editor for community contributions.
>>
>> This is interesting. I couldn't find though. Can you share a
>> screenshot? This is particularly interesting for some of us who are
>> working to make OpenStreetMap software available for outside the
>> ecosystem.
>>
>> >
>> > We are trying to get the high resolution satellite maps from ISRO for
>> > school and college mapping projects that we are currently doing.
>> >
>> > If openstreetmap.in would like to get the satellite maps from
>> > Bhuvan/ISRO, what do we need from them?  Do they have an API to pull
>> > them as background maps?  We may need them mostly while editing.  Since
>> > Id editor is already used by them, I am wondering they may already be
>> > using OSM software stack.
>>
>> Couple of things to keep in mind here -
>>
>> 1. We'd need open licensing, or it should say that tracing for
>> OpenStreetMap is permitted.
>> 2. The layers should be in Web Mercator projection. There are quite a
>> few Bhuvan layers that are not.
>>
>> >
>> > Was there any history of osm community seeking data from ISRO?
>>
>> Recently, we got in touch with ISRO for high resolution post
>> earthquake imagery for Nepal. They shared the raw data and some of us
>> at Mapbox processed it to make it available on OpenStreetMap -
>> https://twitter.com/geohacker/status/593114332164001792
>>
>> Sajjad.
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