Dear Jean-Guilhem, On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Maning, > > I've let Jean-François Faudi, of Spot Image, know that you and Mikel have > echoed my request for imagery. > > And also about your activation request for OSM, and the wiki page. > > But I've also seen that SPOTMaps don't seem to be available "off the shelf" > for the Philippines, on > http://www.spot.com/web/SICORP/1535-sicorp-spotmaps.php
Yes, they don't have SpotMaps coverage in the Philippines. But other Spot products is useful than the existing yahoo/landsat we have at the moment > From experience with Pakistan floods, a shapefile showing the most affected > areas could be useful. > > > Also regarding existing OSM-compatible maps, whatever is available would > likely be useful. I've seen that the Perry-Castaneda maps library has 1:250 > 000 maps from the US Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers, from the 1950s > (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/philippines/), but the 1:50 000 NAMRIA > maps that I've seen mentioned are likely more useful. Maybe they could be > georeferenced and setup as WMS/TMS to be used as background for JOSM, > Potlatch and Merkaartor. I don't think the 1:250K is useful these days. A lot has change in the area (since 1950's). Plus we had a lot more problems using the 1:250K. The 1:50k is also old but more useful than the 1:250K. To all Philippine based mappers, Keep safe. (The winds in Metro Manila are strong considering the Typhoon signal is just "1". What more for the "4" areas.) > Best wishes, > > Jean-Guilhem > > > Le 18/10/2010 10:37, maning sambale a écrit : >> >> JGC, >> >> Let me know of the progress on SPOT. For what it's worth, old imagery >> ca 2010 would be better for tracing roads and other infrastructure. >> I'm tracing large rivers at the moment. >> >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> It is difficult to trace them without more imagery than is available now >>> (I've let our contact at Spot Image know about this), but we could >>> already >>> use Landsat to map rivers (as heavy rains are forecast, and flash floods >>> possible). >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
