[OSM-talk] GeoEye Haiti imagery Ok'd

[andrzej zaborowski]

2010/1/15 Simone Cortesi <simone at cortesi.com>:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 17:07, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
>> You may be seeing the earthquake damage, since it damaged or collapsed thousands of buildings, and may well have caused some coastal changes via landslides, the raising or lowering of land, etc.
>
> so, the image is correctly placed and I can safely move the coast
> around to match it?

There are some imported roads in Haiti from before the earthquake and
some GPS traces, you can compare against them.  Generally I would
rather move the imagery than pre existing stuff, it's a common trap to
align to misaligned imagery.

Cheers