[Talk-us] USGS Orthoimagery

[Ian Dees]

Note that the OSM US server tiles and caches the USGS NAIP and High Res
Orthos and more information can be found here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Servers/Imagery

...but the upstream USGS server that used to host this imagery seems to be
broken (it's throwing 500's). I'm working on finding someone to talk to
about that, but until then we'll have to find something else.


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Bryan Housel <bryan at 7thposition.com> wrote:

> The project for the common imagery sources is here:
> https://github.com/osmlab/editor-imagery-index
>
> You could enter an issue there to include this source so that it will be
> available in the various OSM editors.  Before including it in the index,
> they will want to ensure that the source is properly licensed and has a
> bounding polygon around where the imagery is valid.
>
>
>
> On Jul 6, 2014, at 9:28 AM, Saikrishna Arcot <saiarcot895 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>
>
> I noticed that there is a wiki page on the USGS High Resolution
> Orthoimagery
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/USGS_High_Resolution_Orthoimagery>,
> but that the link is outdated. The new resource to use is likely one of
> these <http://isse.cr.usgs.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/Orthoimagery>
> folders. I've looked at the 1-foot imagery, and this seems to be sharper or
> equal quality than the Bing imagery in at least two areas. In addition,
> according to this <http://cumulus.cr.usgs.gov/listofortho.php> page, only
> Canada and the border data is marked as "View only"; all other counties are
> public domain.
>
>
> Is there any reason this imagery can't be used in OSM, and perhaps even be
> added as one of the pre-existing imagery sources in JOSM?
>
>
> --
> Saikrishna Arcot
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