Hi Edwin, A few people are testing the use of Sentinel imagery for potentiel use in OSM and I guess they will provide some feedback afterwards.
Sincerely, Severin On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Edwin Wisse <ed...@kandedifang.com> wrote: > Hello, > > In the past i have participated in some missing maps and hotosm tasks. > However, i have often found it difficult to distinguish between terrain > types in areas i do not know. For example, along a river in Central Africa > vegetation marks the low water river banks, the area behind it can flood > during high water. In a missing maps task the task was to map these areas > to identify sleeping sickness vulnerable areas. This cannot be done well > using a single dataset for a single date of aerial images. The instructions > in the task descriptions are very helpful but sometimes not enough. One > needs more information than aerial photos provide. > > Presently there is an increasing number of satellites providing more and > more information. The european Sentinel series provides both radar and > visual imagery and various dataproducts derived from that imagery. These > information products are used in emergency situations. The humanitarian > openstreetmap tasks benefit from a simple mapping client like the > in-browser iD editor. id gives the user a choice in background layers, by > default a user can choose between bing, mapbox and mapquest. > > Do you think it would be beneficial if satellite data products like > Sentinel derived information were available in an in-browser openstreetmap > editor like iD? I think information products like vegetation maps, soil > moisture, etc would provide useful background information and could be > described well enough in the task instructions. > > Best regards, > Edwin Wisse > > -- > Edwin Wisse > N 52 48'02.69" E 6 3'16.33" > http://www.kandedifang.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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