Hi All, And of course I experience an issue as soon as I sent this... openstreetmap.org.za DNS has issues, give me a few days to fix. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Kind regards, Grant On 5 September 2016 at 14:38, Grant Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi OpenStreetMap ZA, > > I've been able to get permission for OpenStreetMap to use the City of > Cape Town's very high resolution 2015 aerial imagery (8cm). I > collected a copy of the imagery last month. > > It will be available in JOSM and iD in a few weeks time. > > In the mean time, here is a quick preview: > http://coct.aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/ > > The imagery is expressly ONLY FOR OPENSTREETMAP USAGE. I would have > preferred it be open to all, but wasn't able to negotiate this with > CoCT. > Note CoCT list the imagery on their Open Data portal: > https://web1.capetown.gov.za/web1/OpenDataPortal/DatasetDetail?DatasetName=Aerial%20photography > > Due to continental drift and the conversion between Hartbeeshoek94 and > WGS84 (as used by OSM) the imagery is *currently* around 66cm offset > (2016 - 1994 = 22 years. Drift ~3cm per year). I am busy processing > the imagery to correct this, hence the delay in getting it into OSM > editors. > > Kind regards, > > Grant _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
