Getting a consistent directory of services has been one of my crusades at the USGS. Fortunately, other people have picked up on it as well. The services behind the new National Map Viewer 2.0 will all follow a more predictable naming scheme. I'm hoping the USGS will do more caching of tiles as well (but the USGS still thinks hard drive space is expensive).
I'll dig around a little... personally, I'm wary of using the Terraserver imagery unless there has been a specific license granted to OSM to use it. Even though they are technically just "hosting" public domain data, the nature of public domain is that they can claim copyright over it within the context of their hosting service (just as people can print it in a book and claim copyright on the book). Unlike cc-by-sa or odbl, if something is pd it can become more restrictively licensed by third parties. The crazy thing is that people actually make money by selling copyrighted versions of free information. -Eric -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734 On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Alan Mintz > <[email protected]<alan_mintz%[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> >> It sure would be nice if these individual image sets were available >> through a common interface, instead of having to find/add all the separate >> links. >> >> > 1) Check out http://openaerialmap.org/. Christopher Schmidt set it up a > while back but had to shut it down because he ran out of free time. There's > tons of interest in it, but not enough coders. > 2) In the mean time, I've been working on getting imagery available through > hypercube.telascience.org (the SDSU server that used to run > OpenAerialMap). I'm testing NAIP right now and can add higher-res > WMS-sourced imagery on top if you have a link to add. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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