[Talk-us] 12-/6-/3-inch orthimagery of metro areas in Virginia

[Josh Doe]

I've obtained portions of 2009 leaf-off orthoimagery of Virginia from
the USGS as GeoTIFFs, and would like to know if anyone can host some
of it, or if anyone would like a selected region of it. Total size is
752GB. This is newer and better than anything else I know of for these
regions, but these aren't available online from USGS yet (not until
late 2012/early 2013 from what I've been told). Since these were
captured before the spring, they are excellent for seeing paths and
other features through tree cover.

Roughly the resolution and coverage are:
3-inch: Alexandria, small northern portion of Stafford
6-inch: Fairfax County, Falls Church, Richmond, Stafford,
Chesterfield, Hopewell, James City, Williamsburg, York, Portsmouth
12-inch: Portions of Loudoun, Prince William, Fredericksburg, greater
metro Richmond and Tidewater

I made a quick and dirty map showing the coverage:
http://imgur.com/wG5zD

Metadata can be downloaded here (including Shapefiles of tile boundaries):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23634456/usgs_hro_virginia_2009_metadata.zip
http://www.crocko.com/24AB9BD7D32743C7B7BEA7E8F40E2768/usgs_hro_virginia_2009_metadata.zip
(mirror)

Some more details can be found here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Virginia#2009_VBMP_Orthoimagery
http://www.vita.virginia.gov/isp/default.aspx?id=12118#2009VBMP

I also have imagery from the 2006/2007 collections of the northern
half of the state, which you can read more about here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Virginia#2006.2F2007_VBMP_Orthoimagery
http://www.vita.virginia.gov/isp/default.aspx?id=12118#20062007VBMP

-Josh