Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-03 Thread bvh
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 10:40:42PM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: in options, choose 'Aerial - OpenAerialMap' as background and you'll be fine hmm, i'm slightly baffled by that. the oam coverage for nz is appalling at best and as an aside, i'd be very surprised if it was better

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Christopher Schmidt wrote: Richard is likely limited by the Yahoo! Flash API: I expect that there's a fair chance that Yahoo! hasn't updated their Flash API to provide the new zoom levels that the main API added 2-3 weeks ago (Yahoo added more zoom levels worldwide at that time).

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-03 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 3 May 2008, at 03:40, Christopher Schmidt wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:51:43PM +1200, Robin Paulson wrote: In the majority of the world, OAM and Yahoo! imagery are the same -- both based on Landsat. The difference, in those areas, is that OAM will display tiles far above 1:1

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-03 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:30:39AM +0200, bvh wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 10:40:42PM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: in options, choose 'Aerial - OpenAerialMap' as background and you'll be fine hmm, i'm slightly baffled by that. the oam coverage for nz is appalling at best

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-03 Thread bvh
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 08:03:16AM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: I am not local, but the openstreetmap.org data at the north side of the canal does not seem to match what is on the imagery? More specifically the raster of streets seems out of place. The OSM data in OAM is 6 months out

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-03 Thread Karl Newman
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:38 AM, bvh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 08:03:16AM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: I am not local, but the openstreetmap.org data at the north side of the canal does not seem to match what is on the imagery? More specifically the raster of

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-02 Thread micha ruh
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Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-02 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/5/3 micha ruh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: in options, choose 'Aerial - OpenAerialMap' as background and you'll be fine hmm, i'm slightly baffled by that. the oam coverage for nz is appalling at best and as an aside, i'd be very surprised if it was better resolution than the yahoo imagery anywhere on

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-02 Thread Andrew MacKinnon
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/5/3 micha ruh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: in options, choose 'Aerial - OpenAerialMap' as background and you'll be fine hmm, i'm slightly baffled by that. the oam coverage for nz is appalling at best and as an aside, i'd be

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-02 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:51:43PM +1200, Robin Paulson wrote: 2008/5/3 micha ruh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: in options, choose 'Aerial - OpenAerialMap' as background and you'll be fine hmm, i'm slightly baffled by that. the oam coverage for nz is appalling at best and as an aside, i'd be very

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-02 Thread David Muir Sharnoff
You're right: that OAM imagery is very detailed. Unfortunately, it's not that good where I'm mapping. In Oakland, California, Yahoo! has two zoom levels beyond what Potlatch will display. It would be very helpful to me if Potlatch would display those zoom levels. Google has one (or two)

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-02 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:19 PM, David Muir Sharnoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right: that OAM imagery is very detailed. Unfortunately, it's not that good where I'm mapping. In Oakland, California, Yahoo! has two zoom levels beyond what Potlatch will display. It would be very

Re: [OSM-talk] zoom yahoo data in potlatch?

2008-05-02 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 08:19:52PM -0700, David Muir Sharnoff wrote: You're right: that OAM imagery is very detailed. Unfortunately, it's not that good where I'm mapping. Sorry, my comments were tongue in cheek. I don't expect there to be many cases where OAM is the best choice for mapping.