On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:30:39AM +0200, bvh wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 10:40:42PM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > > > > in options, choose 'Aerial - OpenAerialMap' as background and you'll be > > > > fine > > > > > > hmm, i'm slightly baffled by that. the oam coverage for nz is > > > appalling at best and as an aside, i'd be very surprised if it was > > > better resolution than the yahoo imagery anywhere on the planet > > > > In the majority of the world, OAM and Yahoo! imagery are the same -- > > both based on Landsat. The difference, in those areas, is that OAM will > > display tiles far above "1:1" ratio, as opposed to just giving a 'no > > data' message. > > > > Additionally, I highly doubt you will see anything higher resolution > > than > > http://openaerialmap.org/map/?lat=37.79202&lon=-122.32715&zoom=21&layers=BF > > in Yahoo! anywhere on the planet. > > I am not local, but the openstreetmap.org data at the north side of the > canal does not seem to match what is on the imagery? More specifically > the raster of streets seems out of place.
The OSM data in OAM is 6 months out of date, if that's what you're referring to... It's probably already fixed in OSM. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
