On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Michael Patrick <geodes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Have you considered using landsat-8 or sentinel-2 to get current landcover >> using the QGIS plugin Semi-Automatic Classification? Landviewer [1] has a >> nice interface for finding imagery that is cloud free and of recent >> vintage? The learning curve to landcover classification is a bit steep, >> but >> it should be sufficiently accurate for remote areas.... Clifford >> > > Scandanavian Forest services already have extremely detailed web services > to provide this information ... '*Many users want to see how much forest > there is in a specified area, estimate its average age, and to see which > tree species it contains. SLU Forest Map contains spatial information with > a high degree of detail over most of Sweden's forestland. SLU Forest Map is > based on a combination of data from the Swedish National Forest Inventory > <https://www.slu.se/en/Collaborative-Centres-and-Projects/the-swedish-national-forest-inventory/> > and satellite data <https://saccess.lantmateriet.se/portal/saccess_se.htm> > ... SLU Forest Map is available free of charge as either a download or > within our web based GIS application.*' > > ... including delivery to *MineCraft* ... ('Examples of the use of open > geodata in Minecraft > <http://www.lantmateriet.se/en/Maps-and-geographic-information/Maps/oppna-data/hamta-filer-till-minecraft/anvandningsexempel/#>') > ... now that's Open Data! > > My guess is the permits for future operations are online also. Such an > inventory is is a non-trivial task > <http://www.pobonline.com/articles/100691-forestry-by-way-of-aerial-imagery-remote-sensing-gis>, > especially maintaining it. > > A better way to handle this would be a federated page that layers OSM and > the forestry web service(s). > > This is why I started to think about this, the data about forest harvest in Sweden is under a CCBY like licence, but I wanted to get a better understanding how to tag it before contacting them and see if we can import the data in to OSM. -- Mattias
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