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

[Jóhannes Birgir Jensson]

Þann 11.04.2014 12:03, Alex Barth reit:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:47 PM, maning sambale
> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> This is full coverage down to zoom level 19 imagery in
>>> the US + Western Europe and world wide to zoom level 17.
>> May I ask why?
> 
> Working on it :)
> 
> As part of the same agreement w/ DG that allows us to open the Mapbox
> Satellite layer to OpenStreetMap tracing we are planning to update
> existing imagery with a huge 500,000km2 update. We just blogged this,
> the post comes with a tool to request particular areas to be updated.
> Let us know where we should be updating our Satellite layer next:
> 
> https://www.mapbox.com/blog/new-imagery-for-openstreetmap/ [1]
> 
> 
> 
> Links:
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> [1] https://www.mapbox.com/blog/new-imagery-for-openstreetmap/
> 

Wonderful tool Alex! I've already made requests there for settlements in 
Botswana which were unusable or only partially usable in current 
imagery. I don't know what kind of area you deem to be of the correct 
size so I added each settlement (a total of 10 or so).

Will be submitting requests for Iceland as well, large areas there with 
unusable imagery (green blobs).

Thankful to DG, MapBox and anyone else involved in this. And all of us 
of course, go team!

--Jói