[OSM-talk] GeoEye Haiti imagery Ok'd

[Joseph Reeves]

>or here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=18.546683&lon=-72.349488&zoom=18

Looks fine to me...


2010/1/15 Simone Cortesi <simone at cortesi.com>:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 17:27, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The imagery isn't rectified using ground control points obtained via
>> GPS units, if that's what you're asking, so no, it's not going to be
>> 100% accurate. I'm not certain what was used to rectify it, but I
>> suspect either Yahoo imagery or OSM data itself.
>>
>> If you find an area where all the OSM data is off by a fixed amount,
>> then don't worry about moving the data, move the imagery instead. And
>> don't worry about it overly much, since anyone on the ground with a
>> GPS unit will be able to cope with a 5-10m displacement.
>
> have a look here:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=18.542645&lon=-72.337311&zoom=18&tileurl=http://maps.nypl.org/tilecache/1/haiti/!/!/!.png
> (the 2 circles in the center of the image)
>
> or here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=18.546683&lon=-72.349488&zoom=18
> (coastline)
>
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