[talk-pr] Imagery and Government Data for PR

[Agustin Graterole]

Hey people. Two things I want to share, my search for other imagery sources
to use on JOSM and public domain data from the government.

*Imagery*


   - *Yahoo Imagery as an alternative*. While looking around different
   imagery sources in JOSM with Jeff, it was clear Bing was the best for PR
   (at least right now). Still, I find Bing imagery pretty low quality on too
   many places due to cloud cover and other stuff. Although it's way slower
   than Bing, I got Yahoo imagery to work on JOSM (this wiki tells us is ok to
   use it: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/WMSPlugin).
   Don't know if you people already knew this, but anyway, next bullet then.


   - *Great looking 1 ft. resolution public domain imagery. Two available:
   2006-07 and 2009-10*. Anyone has a spare server on their house to
   install Geoserver and serve imagery via WMS on the web? Ok, maybe it' a
   stupid question. But here's the thing. The GIS website of the government of
   PR (http://www.gis.pr.gov/) has these two sets of imagery as WMS, but I
   can't use any in JOSM on this exact moment. I spoke today with Ivan
   Santiago, GIS Specialist and this site's creator in OGP (Office of
   Management and Budget). He told me that the  *2006-07 *US Corps of
   Engineers imagery he's servicing via WMS can be used by OSM contributors
   but I can't get it to work on JOSM. I'll contact him later to try and
   troubleshoot it. Now regarding the *2009-10* imagery (the one I really
   like), the WMS works very nicely of JOSM *but *there is no official
   permit to use it since he got this version of the imagery from another
   source before US Corps of Engineers bought it and made it public domain.
   Anyway, I talked to a friend who's giving me the public domain version  but
   from what I understand, we would still need to create a WMS to bring it
   into JOSM already georeferenced.


*Government Data (public domain)*


   - *Vector. *Like I said, talked to Ivan Santiago today, and he explained
   which layers of those he is publicly making available for download on the
   GIS site are public domain and safe to use for OSM. Pretty much every
   vector layer which doesn't say these local government agencies on their
   source: *Junta de Calidad Ambiental (JCA)* and *Centro de Recaudación de
   Impuestos Municipales (CRIM)*. Yep, specifically CRIM hurts, they are
   the buildings guys, but we can still ask them. Ivan Santiago has a WMS of
   these CRIM buildings and not a vector layer because CRIM at the moment only
   wanted people to see the buildings but not download them.
   - *2013 USGS Topographic Maps (pdf). *Ivan has a list with all these
   pdfs for download. Good reference.



Questions? Anyway, back to finally start mapping something on Old San Juan.
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