[OSM-talk] Extended GeoEye imagery now available for use on OSM

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 21:35, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> We just got permission from GeoEye to use some new imagery which
> covers a lot more area than what we currently have, this shows the
> extent:
>
>    http://v.nix.is/~avar/geoeye-extent.png
>
> The imagery is 23 TIFF files which I'm mirroring here:
>
>    http://cassini.toolserver.org/haitiearthquake-geoeye-tiffs/
>
> The Google server is very slow so please don't hammer it more. I'll
> see about setting up a torrent or something when we've got it all.
>
> These are "orthorectified 8-bit compresed GeoTiffs", who can help with
> turning these into something usable for OSM editors? I have no idea
> how the TIFF -> WMS|Tiles process goes.

Google just split up all their tar files (their webserver couldn't
handle >2GB files). They're trickling into Cassini at the same URL.