[Talk-us] USGS Tiled High Resolution Orthoimagery

[Ian Dees]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I took a peek at this a while back and came to the conclusion that it
> wasn't
> > as useful as tiling the seamless server because a) it has older data and
> b)
> > is harder to work with.
> > But it's there, so there's no harm in using it. I think it'd probably
> make
> > more sense to use a tilecache/stache plugin than to grab each "tiled
> > GeoTIFF" and run gdal2tiles on it. I can take a peek at it later tonight
> if
> > no one else does.
>
> Take a look at OpenAerialMap as well.  There was some recent activity
> on that list.  I don't know if they are ready for new sources, etc.
> yet.


They're actively indexing NAIP and I'm sure will be looking at other,
higher-res stuff soon [0]. Mike Migurski's got some demos running for
generating tiled data output from OAM, too.

[0] Of course someone else could process imagery and stick it in the index,
too. There are even scripts available to do that. I just haven't figured out
how to use them yet :).
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