[Openstreetmap] Satellite images for offline use?

[Erik Johansson]

On 1/5/06, Alex Willmer <alex at moreati.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.

 landsat 7 of europe as a torrent.
http://www.geotorrent.org/

Also there are a multitude of World wind data cacher out there.

--
/Erik