On Friday 15 August 2014, Kevin Bullock wrote: > [...] DigitalGlobe uses > the entire constellation of 6 satellites to map the world. True there > are many "task orders" we fulfill but the larger mission is to map > the world. We can generally do this on an annual basis.
That is a bold claim considering an estimated 1/4 of the world land surface is currently without any high resolution coverage in Bing, Google or Mapbox. > With our partnership with Mapbox, the OSM community will start seeing > this imagery through the Mapbox satellite layer; this will be of huge > value for mapping new areas and updating OSM. That would be great. I think i mentioned this before but it would be really nice if the Mapbox satellite layer provided information on the date of image acquisition. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
