[OSM-talk] spot imagery for osm tracing

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 02:44:01 BST 2010


Aww. No SPOTMaps for my mapping patch (Philippines).  Just to add to
Ævar's request, the mappers in the Philippines  would really
appreciate SPOT tracing.

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 14:06, Jean-Francois (Jeff) Faudi
> <jeanfrancois.faudi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am talking on behalf of Spot Image. At this stage, we are only making a
>> test over France. As soon as possible, we will try to evaluate the mutual
>> benefits for Spot Image and OpenStreetMap in order to foster an extended
>> collaboration.
>>
>> Here is the SPOtMaps page in English :
>> http://www.spotimage.com/web/en/1285-spotmaps.php
>>
>> And I just want to correct the spelling for the source tag : source=Cnes /
>> Spot Image
>
> Hi Jeff. I was wondering what the SPOT-5 coverage was over
> Iceland. It's not listed on that page, in the KML file or in the
> country list. But according to this:
>
>    http://www.lmi.is/pages/fjarkonnun/spot-5-myndir-keyptar-2008-og-2009/
>
> And:
>
>    http://www.google.com/search?q=iceland+site:spotimage.com
>
> There's at least some coverage. But I assume it's really sparse or in
> low resolution and is thus is not listed on the main listing?
>
> Anyway, if you're looking for a country that you probably have minimal
> commercial gain anyway and that doesn't have any imagery already
> (except for Landsat) the mappers in Iceland would love to get access
> to SPOT-5 for tracing.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
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