Re: [talk-au] Yass district mapping opportunity

2009-09-13 Thread John Smith
2009/9/13 Liz ed...@billiau.net: http://osm.org/go/uNa_WFK there are some new subdivisions - probably of the 2 hectare lot size along this section of Yass Valley Way I didn't do any more than note their presence today Screen shot the area, draw a big red circle round it and upload to the wiki

Re: [talk-au] Yass district mapping opportunity

2009-09-13 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, John Smith wrote: Screen shot the area, draw a big red circle round it and upload to the wiki to make it easier for people that are looking to do something, to find it ! :) later. 1100km in 2 days is a lot of driving, and i am tired tonight -- BOFH excuse #375: Root name

Re: [talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?

2009-09-13 Thread Graeme Wilson
First bit of snooping shows that Landsat imagery is now freely available at http://landsat.usgs.gov/ Haven't yet figured out where the data is or how to get the data / images out yet, or whether there is any Aussie data there at all. It says that the Landsat images are taken from

Re: [talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?

2009-09-13 Thread John Smith
2009/9/13 Graeme Wilson wandere...@live.com.au: It says that the Landsat images are taken from 440 miles up, which is a lot more that I had thought. I presumed they were from about 160 miles or so. Weather doesn't need the same accuracy, plus they would orbit slower. Having fresh data is

Re: [talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?

2009-09-13 Thread Liz
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Graeme Wilson wrote: First bit of snooping shows that Landsat imagery is now freely available at http://landsat.usgs.gov/ That's a bleeding shame that the full archive has been available since last October, and we are still using stuff at least 8 years old for our area

Re: [talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?

2009-09-13 Thread Graeme Wilson
There is data available for free from our own government but it is what they call medium resolution, that is 250 metres per pixel and it is free if you download it, and the file size is from 1.5 to 2.5 GB. (Yes, GB) or $150 per DVD, but at 250 m per pixel, I doubt it is usefull. We need

Re: [talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?

2009-09-13 Thread b . schulz . 10
I'm happy to download a few gig of that imagery and post out DVDs to people. What site has it? - Original Message - From: Graeme Wilson wandere...@live.com.au Date: Monday, September 14, 2009 8:38 am Subject: Re: [talk-au] Our own satellite imagery? To: ed...@billiau.net, talk-au OSM

Re: [talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?

2009-09-13 Thread John Smith
2009/9/14 b.schulz...@scu.edu.au: There's always this idea too: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/13/1712216/Students-Take-Pictures-From-Space-On-150-Budget?art_pos=7 A balloon based imagery project would be seriously cool. It would certainly be useful for getting imagery of small

Re: [talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?

2009-09-13 Thread John Smith
2009/9/14 b.schulz...@scu.edu.au: I'm happy to download a few gig of that imagery and post out DVDs to people. at 250m/pixel it's not worth bothering with. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org