I think it's a great idea to have some more bing imagery example images in our tagging docs e.g. the 'Highway Tag Africa' page. There's some copyright concerns which might hold us back, but I think that would be a shame. I've just added some thoughts to that discussion http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=23405 and linked a new wiki template we can start using on image description pages: {{Bing image}}
Harry ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralf Stephan <gtrw...@gmail.com> To: Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com> Cc: "hot@openstreetmap.org" <hot@openstreetmap.org> Sent: Wednesday, 10 September 2014, 17:13 Subject: Re: [HOT] Satellite imagery interpretation examples - looking for suggestions As the Mapbnox imagery doesn't seem good enough to illustrate the photos I collected, I stumbled upon this post by Pieren: "The answer is 'no' for a mass use of Bing screenshots but I think there is some place for occasional and limited amount of images, especially when it is used to illustrate how "to trace from their imagery into OSM". (ideally, the uploaded images in the wiki should be downgraded with JOSM lines, making the image reuse for other purposes impossible)." http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=23405 Since I'm planning exactly that, i.e., composing new images containing a photo and a tagged satellite excerpt, and this for about two dozen pictures in the Wiki only, I have the strong hope this may go through with our legal team. Please raise objections now. Regards, On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh those pictures are really cool, ty. > > On 9/10/2014 6:15 AM, Ralf Stephan wrote: >> >> There are precious few photos in Wikimedia Commons showing forest roads >> and hamlets in West Africa. I started to collect those I could localize >> and >> associate with a tag. Only primary roads so far. Some from DRC. >> >> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rwst/Commons_photos_roads_hamlets_w-africa >> >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Sander Deryckere<sander...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Some pictures on the Africa highways wiki page wouldn't hurt either. >>> >>> Quite often, a road can look too narrow to be classified as >>> "unclassified", >>> so people put "path" on it. But that's in a lot of cases because the >>> treetop >>> makes it seem narrow, but at the bottom, it's wide enough for vehicles to >>> pass. >>> >>> 2014-09-10 9:21 GMT+02:00 Nick Allen<nick.allen...@gmail.com>: >>>> >>>> >>>> Blake, >>>> >>>> I'm hoping you can come up with a way of sharing the screenshots on >>>> these >>>> subjects. As well as the wiki or LearnOSM article you develop, the basic >>>> screenshots could be of enormous help for those who produce items on >>>> twitter, facebook, press articles, slideshows for presentations etc.. >>>> >>>> Personally I'm currently attempting to work on a series of slides used >>>> when delivering training at events, and I like to include screenshots >>>> from >>>> iD& JOSM and in each I like to have the scale visible. >>>> >>>> >>>> There are many others on this mailing list with more experience on the >>>> subject of sharing the information, but this could include a shared >>>> folder >>>> in GoogleDrive, or Dropbox. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Nick >>>> (Tallguy) >>>> >>>> >>>> On 10/09/14 02:32, Blake Girardot wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> You might have read in a few emails I was hoping to put up some >>>> satellite >>>> imagery that shows things we often map in W. Africa. >>>> >>>> Originally and still mainly, I wanted some examples of schools and roads >>>> of different types. >>>> >>>> I am open to any suggestions for things to include and if you find any >>>> good examples with MapBox imagery please send them my way. >>>> >>>> Or if you find something that you don't know what it is, please share it >>>> here and we'll get it identified. >>>> >>>> For users of iD, just center on the thing in question and then copy/past >>>> the url from your web browser into an email. >>>> >>>> JOSM users can click in the lower left corner of their window and a >>>> location box will pop up, you can just copy/paste the url from that box >>>> into >>>> an email. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Blake >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> HOT mailing list >>>> HOT@openstreetmap.org >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> Nick >>>> >>>> Volunteer 'Tallguy' for >>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team >>>> >>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Tallguy >>>> >>>> Treasurer, website& Bonus Ball admin for >>>> http://www.6thswanleyscouts.org.uk/ (treasu...@6thswanleyscouts.org.uk) >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> HOT mailing list >>>> HOT@openstreetmap.org >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> HOT mailing list >>> HOT@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot