Yes, it doesn't offer any of the features like the indexing system other than the fact that it's dead simple and free. It doesn't need to because it just a TMS structure, nothing distributed. Let's assume MQ open aerial tiles is the equivalent of pointing MapProxy at the USGS wms server. The point is that MQ is paying for bandwith and storage and presumably if other free wms sources of imagery data are available MQ could do the same to them. From the perspective of someone just wanting to access open imagery I would think this would overlap the use-case of openaerialmap. At least to some extent. Has there been any discussion of this?
At least part of the rational for openaerialmap was a function of the unavailability of imagery data you could use without license restriction, like OSM. Once you have a big commercial vendor handing out data for free this starts to overlap with openaerialmap. On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > MQ's open tiles thing is currently just a proxy to USGS's servers/data. It > does not offer any of the features crschmidt has listed in the documentation > for OAM. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list t...@host134.hostmonster.com http://host134.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org
