What will this mean for saved offsets in Josm, both locally and on the servers?
/Andreas Skickat från min iPhone > 29 juni 2019 kl. 11:42 skrev Christoph Hormann <[email protected]>: > >> On Saturday 29 June 2019, Kevin Bullock wrote: >> DigitalGlobe, now Maxar [1], is transitioning the OpenStreetMap >> imagery endpoints (from “DigitalGlobe Standard” to “Maxar Standard”; >> and from “DigitalGlobe Premium” to “Maxar Premium”). OSM users should >> see content parity between the old and the new layers by June 30, >> 2019. Starting July 1, 2019, there will be only two Maxar layers >> available from within the OSM editors – labeled with Beta. > > My usual question: will there be image metadata available for these > layers, preferably in a machine readable form that allows editors for a > spatially selective suggestion of the best available imagery? > >> The good news: imagery will be more recent and more frequently >> updated with our latest Maxar mosaic content. We hope that our >> improved production processes (bundle block adjustment, atmospheric >> compensation, continuous updates, etc.) will benefit OSM >> contributors. > > A quick look at some critical areas shows that while coverage is similar > or better than with the old layers there is a significant number of > places where either the Standard and Premium layers now feature the > same image or where a well mapping suitable image (at high latitudes > usually: near snow and ice minimum) is being replaced by a less mapping > suitable image: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/73.4207/54.9987 > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/75.8010/-83.9056 > > There seem to be some rendering artefacts at the lower zoom levels: > > https://earthwatch.digitalglobe.com/earthservice/tmsaccess/tms/1.0.0/DigitalGlobe:ImageryTileService@EPSG:3857@jpg/11/1940/304.jpg?connectId=d9c5e3ef-6300-4cec-9562-c1f27da6b2d9 > https://earthwatch.digitalglobe.com/earthservice/tmsaccess/tms/1.0.0/DigitalGlobe:ImageryTileService@EPSG:3857@jpg/13/2834/2333.jpg?connectId=d9c5e3ef-6300-4cec-9562-c1f27da6b2d9 > > Examples of useful improvements: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-57.1171/-26.8197 > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/75.8120/137.6692 > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/81.5993/-16.6763 > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/-77.9505/166.6831 > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
