You are assuming that all of DG's imagery gets published in Mapbox/Google/Bing, which is incorrect. Please see my SOTM-US presentation; 4m00s in. http://stateofthemap.us/session/mapping-the-world-in-raster/
On Thursday, August 14, 2014, Christoph Hormann <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >
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