[talk-pr] Imagery and Government Data for PR

Thu Jan 16 02:24:38 UTC 2014

How much data are we talking?

I might be able to host it at the university or in my own personal server!

I spoke with some friends at OGP to see if they can help us I know the director of IT at OGP and the Gov CIO, also the CIO at Dept of Natural Resources, I did talk to all of them hopefully we’ll get some help.

Did they tell you guys why was CRIM data off limits and not available for public use?

On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:07 PM, Victor Ramirez <vramirez122000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> We can work something out for hosting the imagery on cloud services, I have already worked with geoserver. But why WMS? Its faster an cheaper to create tiles. I have a script that takes a big geotiff and creates the tile hierarchy. Then we can use any static file hosting, like amazon s3 for a few bucks a month.
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> Does Ivan Santiago have any contacts a the CRIM?
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> BTW, the building layer that I have is not very helpful in old san juan. Seems the planimetry guys gave up and drew entire blocks as single buildings there. The rest of the city is pretty good though. Julio's building vectors are more up to date and could be better drawn. 
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> On 01/15/2014 09:49 PM, Agustin Graterole wrote:
>> 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. 
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>> Imagery
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>> 	• 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.
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>> Government Data (public domain)
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>> 	• 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.
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>> Questions? Anyway, back to finally start mapping something on Old San Juan.
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