[OSM-talk] New mapping satellite

[Kevin Bullock]

You are assuming that all of DG's imagery gets published in
Mapbox/Google/Bing, which is incorrect. Please see my SOTM-US presentation;
4m00s in. http://stateofthemap.us/session/mapping-the-world-in-raster/

On Thursday, August 14, 2014, Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de>
wrote:

> On Friday 15 August 2014, Kevin Bullock wrote:
> > [...] DigitalGlobe uses
> > the entire constellation of 6 satellites to map the world. True there
> > are many "task orders" we fulfill but the larger mission is to map
> > the world. We can generally do this on an annual basis.
>
> That is a bold claim considering an estimated 1/4 of the world land
> surface is currently without any high resolution coverage in Bing,
> Google or Mapbox.
>
> > With our partnership with Mapbox, the OSM community will start seeing
> > this imagery through the Mapbox satellite layer; this will be of huge
> > value for mapping new areas and updating OSM.
>
> That would be great.
>
> I think i mentioned this before but it would be really nice if the
> Mapbox satellite layer provided information on the date of image
> acquisition.
>
> --
> Christoph Hormann
> http://www.imagico.de/
>
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