[Talk-in] Id editor on Bhuvan

[Shekhar Krishnan]

We should get the raw imagery from them and make it ourselves. ISRO is
under no mandate to provide an API and Bhuvan may just disappear one day.

S.K.
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Shekhar Krishnan
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http://shekhar.cc
On 17-May-2015 11:39 am, "Nagarjuna G." <nagarjun at gnowledge.org> wrote:

> On 17 May 2015 4:27:46 am IST, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 5/15/2015 10:33 PM, Sajjad Anwar wrote:
>>
>>>  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.
>>>
>> There's two sides to this - one is getting the imagery, the other is
>> having it hosted somewhere.
>>
>> If you can get the imagery under a usable license, I'm sure someone can
>> host it. Once it's hosted, it can be added to the list for iD and P2
>> (https://github.com/osmlab/editor-imagery-index) and to the JOSM wiki
>> (http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Maps)
>>
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> Do we really need the tiles? If they give an API service, wouldn't it be
> enough?
>
> We should be clear of exactly what to ask.
>
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