[OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

[Anthony]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> From this and several earlier discussions I get the impression that the
>> group
>> of Australians currently so active on the mailing list isn't lazy but they
>> are certainly impatient.
>>
>
> Yes, perhaps :) Probably the big difference between here and elsewhere is
> the availability of high-quality, recent imagery that we have explicit
> permission to trace from.
>

There is plenty of public domain high resolution imagery in the United
States (see http://seamless.usgs.gov/wms_services.php?layerid=15).  It's
just not available in Potlatch, because Potlatch doesn't support WMS.  You
can definitely use it in Merkaartor, and I believe it's possible to use it
in JOSM as well.
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