[OSM-talk] sub meter imagery for Israel and Palestine

[Christoph Hormann]

On Tuesday 26 October 2021, Mikel Maron wrote:
>
> What this means is that OSM editing in Israel and Palestine can now
> take advantage of high resolution imagery. This has long been
> impossible because of US law limiting resolution to 2m. That law has
> changed.

I can highly recommend reading the Wikipedia article on that law btw.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyl%E2%80%93Bingaman_Amendment

Note in particular that the law in question has not been abolished, just 
the limit was changed from 2m to 0.4m in 2020.  In 2021 now the highest 
resolution commercial satellite imagery available is 0.3m:  

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C3%A9iades_Neo

-- 
Christoph Hormann
https://www.imagico.de/