[OSM-talk] OrbView-3 is public domain

Stephan Knauss osm at stephans-server.de
Tue Jan 17 12:15:59 GMT 2012


hbogner writes: 

> Anyone tried processing those imges?
i did. Specific question? 

Interesting would be if the images are served from an existing TMS.
What about Mapquest Open Aerial?
That would save us from downloading 200Mb per pattern. 

In Thailand there are nearly 800 patches available, some overlap and differ 
in date and cloud cover. Downloading all would mean nearly 160GB.
Recompressing the images from tiff into jpg reduces the individual file 
size from ~400MB down to ~15MB.
Still you would not want to open a 200 megapixel image as a background 
layer on a netbook. 

Stephan



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