That's indeed some nice imagery. In the area I looked at, the QC/NY border south of Montreal, it doesn't extend all that far into Canada but it's nice nonetheless. If you look at the list linked from the wiki page ( http://cumulus.cr.usgs.gov/dispatches/PRODUCT_Orthos.html ) there don't seem to be any non-PD regions -- so I guess we can use it?
Does anybody know how to load this data in JOSM? The URLs/instructions provided in the wiki article didn't work for me. Cheers, Harald. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Stewart C. Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > While editing near Leamington ON in Potlatch, I clicked by accident on > the Background -> "OSM US USGS Large Scale Aerial Imagery". It came up > with really sharp and recent orthoimagery. It's of similar quality to > the SWOOP images I buy at $50/km^2 for work, and covers some areas that > Bing doesn't. Images look to be from 2010 or so, guessing from the > visible wind power projects in SW Ontario. > > Trying out several areas near the US border I found: > * that coverage is seemingly random; some isolated areas have it, > contiguous areas near the border might not > * it's coming from a very slow server which only works if you're zoomed > in very close > * it's not seemingly available from a public WMS, as any of the USGS > servers I tried blank at the Canadian border. > > Surprisingly, it seems that not all USGS imagery is public domain > (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/USGS_High_Resolution_Orthoimagery#Data_License). > So, can we use it? > > cheers, > Stewart > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- Please use encrypted communication whenever possible! Key-ID: 0x199DC50F _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
