[OSM-talk] Aerial photographs (5cm per pixel) is now available from Dortmund

[Jochen Topf]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 07:59:18PM +0100, osm-dortmund dortmund wrote:
> As of now, the high-resolution aerial photographs of the Dortmund company
> Aerowest http://www.aerowest.de for the area of the city of Dortmund are
> available. For a pilot project which has Aerowest GmbH orthophotos from the
> year 2009 provided with a ground resolution of 5 cm per pixel are available
> for unlimited use until 30.06.2010.
> 
> The images from the WMS-Server are accessed via the following address:
> http://wms.openstreetmap.de/wms?LAYERS=Dortmund&
> 
> It is also possible to use potlatch
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lon=7.46312&&lat=51.51195&zoom=18&tileurl=http://wms.openstreetmap.de/tms/Dortmund/!/!/!.png
> 
> In the wiki we have created a project page with instructions for integrating
> and other information
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Luftbilder_aus_Dortmund
> 
> The aim of the project
> Aerowest supported Openstreetmap and promises this strategic cooperation to
> new insights into how free geographic information can be useful for
> commercial spatial data providers.
> In particular, hoped Aerowest a collection of house numbers are clearly
> better than commercial providers currently able to deliver. If successful,
> this pilot project is being considered by Aerowest to release aerial
> photographs of other towns for the OSM community.
> 
> Special thanks goes to the German FOSSGIS as contractors.

Just to clarify, because the word "contactor" is a bit unclear here: The German
non-profit FOSSGIS e.V. signed the agreement with Aerowest on behalf of the OSM
community, because Aerowest required some legal entity to do that. FOSSGIS also
host the images on one of its servers.

> and now a lot of fun with the aerial photographs

Jochen
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