[talk-ph] OrbView-3 TMS for the Philippines

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

Hi,

A TMS tile service with 233 OrbView-3 images of the Philippines (1 m
resolution, panchromatic images with less than 20% cloud cover, L1Gst
level processed, shot between 2003 and 2007), made freely available by
USGS, is available. It can be useful in some areas where no high
resolution Bing imagery is available.

You can preview the images here:
http://osm.arkemie.org/ousm/philippines/?layers=0B00TFFTF

To use in JOSM, add in your TMS preferences:
tms[19]:http://osm.arkemie.org/cgi-bin/tiles/1.0.0/philippines/{zoom}/{x}/{y}

(To add it, open the "WMS/TMS" tab in the preferences dialog, click on
"+", select the TMS tab, give a layer name and copy the above address in
"web address").

To use in Potlatch2, add in custom background:
http://osm.arkemie.org/cgi-bin/tiles/1.0.0/philippines/$z/$x/$y

As with Bing images, it is recommended to check and adjust alignment
with GPS tracks before tracing.

You can see also:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OrbView-3#Available_in_editors

I intend to further enhance the contrast for images that include clouds
later, but I won't have time to do it this week.

Best wishes,

Jean-Guilhem

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