Re: [HOT] #777 Hi-res imagery for Cameroon (was Mapping Northern Nigeria ?)

2015-01-15 Thread m902
On 15/01/2015 19:15, Jorieke Vyncke wrote: Just a small remark : recently we got high resolution imagery for whole Cameroon from DigitalGlobe. And in the far north along the border with Nigera they face the same problems

Re: [HOT] #777 Hi-res imagery for Cameroon (was Mapping Northern Nigeria ?)

2015-01-15 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi, I was just about to send an email to the imagery coordination team and see if I can find out the status of this imagery. Jorieke is heading into the field so she is going to have limited time and access to help with this. But I will for sure report back what I find out. Cheers, Blake

Re: [HOT] #777 Hi-res imagery for Cameroon (was Mapping Northern Nigeria ?)

2015-01-15 Thread Mark Cupitt
Blake #777 is the only HiRes Imagery available in Cameroon, I have not been able to keep up with all the chatter, been on a project. This task has not had a lot of activity and has a specific focus. What is the need here? Cheers Maerk Regards Mark Cupitt "If we change the world, let it bear t

Re: [HOT] #777 Hi-res imagery for Cameroon (was Mapping Northern Nigeria ?)

2015-01-15 Thread Mark Cupitt
Blake, sorry, that should have read This task has had a LOT of activity" The TMS Url has been removed form the project, not by me. I will see if I can find it again .. I guess someone edited it .. The followup for this task was to identify specific areas based on #777 then map the buildings, etc.

Re: [HOT] #777 Hi-res imagery for Cameroon (was Mapping Northern Nigeria ?)

2015-01-15 Thread Mark Cupitt
Hi Blake, Ok, second coffee fixed it. The imagery is available on the Map Box Layer. You threw me with he inquiry to Hiu, this has nothing to so with the US Sate Department. MapBox have made whatever Imagery they have available for Cameroon to map **Imagery Details** High resolution imagery is a

Re: [HOT] #777 Hi-res imagery for Cameroon (was Mapping Northern Nigeria ?)

2015-01-15 Thread john whelan
> What is the specific need at the moment?? I don't think there is one, its more a matter of quite a few tiles had cloud cover on them and the hope was for one or two new tiles with different cloud cover or no cloud cover. It's an overview project and there is still a lot of detail that can be ma

Re: [HOT] #777 Hi-res imagery for Cameroon (was Mapping Northern Nigeria ?)

2015-01-15 Thread Mark Cupitt
Hi John, yep, that was my understanding on the overview.. The next step is to analyze the overview and create tasks that will pick out the population areas for detailed mapping. The cloud cover, unfortunately is there to stay unless DG get additional imagery .. and make it available. If we are re

Re: [HOT] #777 Hi-res imagery for Cameroon (was Mapping Northern Nigeria ?)

2015-01-15 Thread Kevin Bullock
Hi - speaking for DG here, we published all cloud-free high res imagery available for Cameroon. For the gaps in coverage, we are tasking satellites. Note that task #777 is only Est province but most of the entire country is covered. Our goal is to create follow-on tasks for the other provinces.

Re: [HOT] #777 Hi-res imagery for Cameroon (was Mapping Northern Nigeria ?)

2015-01-15 Thread Mark Cupitt
Hi Kevin, many thanks for responding. A big thanks for tasking for more imagery as well .. So .. I guess to answer what I understand to be the question, all available HiRes imagery is published already on the MapBox Layer and has a license to trace for OSM, in Cameroon, provided that an attributio