Exactly. NextView imagery is imagery that HOT requests from the US State Department. There are some rules about requesting it and we are still testing out the process.
Best, -Kate On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com <[email protected]> wrote: > The NextView won't be available for your area. It was added as an option to > the TM as part of the "Camp Roberts" exercise with the US gov for mapping > refugee camps in southern Ethiopia and Eastern Kenya and now (I think) with > the American Red Cross project to map two cities in Northern Uganda. > > That imagery is always sourced separately (I've understood), which is why > there's the special license that one must accept to get to the imagery. > > Cheers, > -Jaakko > > Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel > -- > Mobile: +509-37-26 91 54, Skype/GoogleTalk: jhelleranta > > -----Original Message----- > From: maning sambale <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:56:48 > To: Kate Chapman<[email protected]> > Cc: HOT<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [HOT] using HOT resources for a DRR project > > Dear everyone, > > I created a job for one of our mapping sites [0]. Please review if > the instructions are simple enough. I noticed that when creating a > job there is an option to use the NextView imagery, is it possible to > use it in this case? How do I know that the nextview imagery has > better coverega than what is available in Bing? > > [0] http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/52 > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:08 PM, maning sambale > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks Kate! >> >> Can I request access to creating tasks in the Tasking Manager? >> >> We will surely announce in the hot and talk-ph list once mapping starts. >> >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Kate Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Maning, >>> >>> It is no problem to use the main Tasking Manager. Especially since the >>> project is DRR related. >>> >>> Is there any other way we can help? >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> -Kate >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:50 PM, maning sambale >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Dear hotties, >>>> >>>> I mentioned early this month of a small project we are collaborating >>>> for disaster management [0]. The initiative is more towards disaster >>>> mitigation and not on the actual disaster (which we hope won't >>>> happen). >>>> We will be using OSM as a primary source of data. We are also planning >>>> to use the HOT tasking manager for coordinating the OSM data >>>> collection activities. I would like to ask if it is OK to use the >>>> main >>>> Tasking Manager instance for coordinating our OSMing work or should we >>>> deploy our own instance? >>>> >>>> Since the project is minimally funded, we would like to allocate >>>> resources to the mapping side of things and not on the "associated >>>> technology" for coordination work. >>>> >>>> [0] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2012-August/002087.html >>>> -- >>>> cheers, >>>> maning >>>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>>> "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden >>>> wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ >>>> blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ >>>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> HOT mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> >> >> -- >> cheers, >> maning >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden >> wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ >> blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ >> ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
