Re: [OSM-talk] New mapping satellite

2014-08-24 Thread Richard Z.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 03:14:32PM -0700, Kevin Bullock wrote: 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. just looking at the Seychelles, anything in

Re: [OSM-talk] New mapping satellite

2014-08-15 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Friday 15 August 2014, Kevin Bullock wrote: 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/ Interesting talk, thanks for pointing

Re: [OSM-talk] New mapping satellite

2014-08-14 Thread Kevin Bullock
I am submitting an abstract to present WorldView-3 capabilities at SOTM in Nov. This is the third WorldView class satellite and its predecessors both achieve better than 3.5m CE90 (circular error, 90th percentile), and have since 2007 and 2009 when they were launched. WorldView-3 is expected to

Re: [OSM-talk] New mapping satellite

2014-08-14 Thread Christoph Hormann
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

Re: [OSM-talk] New mapping satellite

2014-08-14 Thread 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_horm...@gmx.de wrote: On Friday 15

[OSM-talk] New mapping satellite

2014-08-13 Thread John Sturdy
Announced in typical Register style: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/13/creepy_satellites_will_be_able_to_zoom_in_on_your_face/ I expect it'll be some time before images become available for OSM, though :-( And I'm not confusing resolution and accuracy! __John

Re: [OSM-talk] New mapping satellite

2014-08-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Wednesday 13 August 2014, John Sturdy wrote: Announced in typical Register style: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/13/creepy_satellites_will_be_abl e_to_zoom_in_on_your_face/ Mapbox has some more detailed explanations: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/worldview-3-launch/ including an