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

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 03:13, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

There's also a .torrent:
http://cassini.toolserver.org/haitiearthquake-geoeye-tiffs/geoeye_00156730.torrent