Re: [Talk-us] Google's Imagery Sources & Turnaround Time (re: USGS National Map aerial imagery)

2010-06-05 Thread Greg Williamson
David Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Anthony wrote: > > As an aside, I wish I could find the source of the Google Maps imagery here > > in Tampa. It was either taken in 2009 or 2010, and it looks like it was > > 2010. > According to Google Earth, that imagery is from April

Re: [Talk-us] Google's Imagery Sources & Turnaround Time (re: USGS National Map aerial imagery)

2010-06-05 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:59 PM, David ``Smith'' wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Anthony wrote: > > As an aside, I wish I could find the source of the Google Maps imagery > here > > in Tampa. It was either taken in 2009 or 2010, and it looks like it was > > 2010. > > According to Google

Re: [Talk-us] USGS National Map aerial imagery

2010-06-05 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 06/05/2010 08:51 PM, Anthony wrote: > Yes, another program to try is Merkaartor. You only have to give it the > server URL (in my case > http://imsortho.cr.usgs.gov:80/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/USGS_EDC_Ortho_Florida?) > and it downloads the capabilities file and presents you with a lis

[Talk-us] Google's Imagery Sources & Turnaround Time (re: USGS National Map aerial imagery)

2010-06-05 Thread David ``Smith''
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Anthony wrote: > As an aside, I wish I could find the source of the Google Maps imagery here > in Tampa.  It was either taken in 2009 or 2010, and it looks like it was > 2010. According to Google Earth, that imagery is from April 5 of this year! Now that's some fas

Re: [Talk-us] USGS National Map aerial imagery

2010-06-05 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > I am not an expert with WMS URLs. I have noticed that recently (1-2 > months?) the JOSM WMS config that I had for the 15cm and 30cm massgis > imagery (I think same pictures, but massgis hosted) stopped working. > It's possible there is somethi

Re: [Talk-us] USGS National Map aerial imagery

2010-06-05 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Mike N. wrote: > > I sure hope not, because I use it all the time. > > It's very new here - much newer than the 2007 Yahoo imagery - it looks > like > it was taken in 2010. What is your JOSM WMS URL? > To clarify, I use the USGS imagery for Hillsborough County

Re: [Talk-us] USGS National Map aerial imagery

2010-06-05 Thread Greg Troxel
Lars Ahlzen writes: > On 06/05/2010 07:07 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > >> Do you have JOSM WMS urls to put in a josm config file for these? > > Well, not really... The example was from a dl:ed GeoTIFF. > > There's a link to the WMS capabilities description on this page: > > http://gisdata.usgs.gov/e

Re: [Talk-us] USGS National Map aerial imagery

2010-06-05 Thread Lars Ahlzen
On 06/05/2010 07:07 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > I think the 15cm and 30m imagery is not from MassGIS, but was paid for > by USGS, and massgis has been hosting it. But I'm not sure. You may be right. It's not clear (IMO) from the metadata. Fortunately, it shouldn't matter. > Do you have JOSM WMS url

Re: [Talk-us] USGS National Map aerial imagery

2010-06-05 Thread Mike N.
> I sure hope not, because I use it all the time. It's very new here - much newer than the 2007 Yahoo imagery - it looks like it was taken in 2010. What is your JOSM WMS URL? I tried http://terraservice.net/ogcmap.ashx?version=1.1.1&request=GetMap&Layers=urbanarea&Styles=&SRS=EPSG:4326&form

Re: [Talk-us] USGS National Map aerial imagery

2010-06-05 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Lars Ahlzen wrote: > Does anyone see a reason why this data couldn't be used for tracing, as > long as proper attribution (USGS and MassGIS, to be safe) is given? It > certainly beats Yahoo! > I sure hope not, because I use it all the time. ___

[Talk-us] USGS National Map aerial imagery

2010-06-05 Thread Lars Ahlzen
Hi! (I apologize if this belongs in legal, but I got the impression that the latter primarily deals with the use of OSM data.) The USGS National Map [0] has hi-res, up-to-date aerial imagery for many urban areas. Here's an example from the "Boston, MA 0.15m (Apr 2008)" layer (15 cm resolution!):