[Openstreetmap] Satellite images for offline use?

[Alex Willmer]

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 20:40 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> where can I download the satellite images used as a background on the
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/ site for offline use? I fetched the
> source from SVN but couldn't find any obvious pointers to the image
> data.

The imagery is from Landsat, a NASA satellite. Openstreetmap doesn't
hold the data locally, each time a tile is requested the applet queries
a WMS server. I believe it's the same server used by osm-editor, which
is:

http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi

USGS recently announced a new release of Landsat data, that has been
orthorectified:

http://technology.slashgeo.org/technology/05/12/29/1625212.shtml

You may select your desired landsat tiles using the glovis or oneearth
and then fetch them using the ftp links provided.

I'd love to hear other sources or tips.

Regards

Alex