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

[François Van Der Biest]

Hi,

The torrent file does not work for me.
It says "got bad file info".

F.

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
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