[OSM-talk] High res DigitalGlobe imagery open for tracing through Mapbox Satellite

RB tanrub at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 15:08:01 UTC 2014


Ouah!

That's impressive! It covers many forest areas in the shade on Bing in
Switzerland.

Thanks a lot!


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:

> Effective immediately the Mapbox Satellite option in iD and JOSM is 100%
> open for tracing in OpenStreetMap, including all our high resolution
> DigitalGlobe imagery. This is full coverage down to zoom level 19 imagery
> in the US + Western Europe and world wide to zoom level 17.
>
> To use this imagery select "Mapbox Satellite" from the imagery menu in iD
> on the web or in JOSM. Mapbox Satellite is open for tracing in
> OpenStreetMap in general and not tied to a specific editor, so if you would
> like to add Mapbox Satellite to another OpenStreetMap editor you are
> welcome to do so.
>
> Big props to Kevin Bullock (cc'ed) and our friends at DigitalGlobe - it's
> fantastic working with good people who see wins of working with
> OpenStreetMap.
>
> Alex
>
> PS - on an existing installation of JOSM you'll have to refresh your
> imagery menu like so: http://cl.ly/image/383O2L0t431s
>
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