[Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - preparations

[Alex Barth]

Awesome name. 

Is the Thanksgiving weekend Nov 23-25 good for this? Fine by me, just wanted to flag it.

FYI: Vitor George and myself will be running global OSM web casts for Latin America out of Mexico DF and NYC in Portuguese and Spanish that very weekend [1]. This is part of the Desarrollando America Latina 2013 event [2].

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_at_Desarrollando_Am%C3%A9rica_Latina_2012
[2] http://desarrollandoamerica.org/

On Nov 2, 2012, at 5:42 AM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

>> From: Matthias Meißer [mailto:digi_c at arcor.de]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 9:51 AM
>> To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: [Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - preparations
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>> Hi US community,
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>> 4. *Further Imagery*
>> Is there other or better imagery than Bing for certain areas? How can we
>> promote this to the other volunteers?
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> If there is JOSM or PL2 should suggest it. https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Maps has a list of imagery. JOSM goes by polygon and PL2 goes by bbox. Polygons are more accurate but you should be fine in the US.
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> The main imagery source to be aware of country-wide is the USGS aerials. Where I've examined them they're very well aligned although not always as high a resolution. They should be suggested but http://{switch:a,b,c}.tile.openstreetmap.us/usgs_large_scale/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg should work in JOSM.
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