Re: [Talk-us] rasters of climate change

The NASA Earth Observatory has a page on the retreat of the Columbia Glacier in Alaska: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/columbia_glacier.php All the false color NASA images in the series are downloadable [1], Or you can go to the USGS options for Landsat download [2] if

Re: [Talk-us] USGS Large-Scale Imagery degraded this month :(

http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/usgs-cutting-high-resolution-ortho-imagery-program/479365 On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > I run the tile.openstreetmap.us server and noticed this change. Thanks > for finding the USGS link: I saw it a while ago

Re: [Talk-us] NAIP US Aerial Imagery

Does this mean that NAIP will be removing WMS from future services and will only support JSON and SOAP? (which I cannot get JOSM to accept). Just to comment on this one point: As a federal agency, the USDA is *required* to support the open standard option of the WMS service type, so it

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.org wrote: TIGER is much older than reasonably portable GPS units. According to [1] pre-TIGER paper map sources were below the quality of the 1:100,000 DLG data outside of urban areas. Many of the crazy spaghetti data areas we see

Re: [Talk-us] Misspelled names

name=Walmart Neighborhood Market is a real thing, and probably shouldn't be corrected. They have different branding than a regular Walmart (green and yellow vs. the regular Walmart blue and yellow). Here's the one on hwy 99 in Milwaukee OR:

Re: [Talk-us] NHD import

If it were coastal Oregon or SW Washington, there would be a good chance that those were Cranberry farms (bogs). Tanya On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Brett Lord-Casitllo marigol...@yahoo.comwrote: Most recent USGS topos show that area as water features. NAIP 2012 shows water there; looks like

Re: [Talk-us] name expansion bot (Re: Imports information on the wiki)

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: but overall, the automation saved countless hours of manual name expansion for the minor cost of having to deal with a very small number of largely regionally-isolated edge cases. Can someone explain the original point

Re: [Talk-us] name expansion bot (Re: Imports information on the wiki)

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:41 PM, TC Haddad tchad...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.orgwrote: but overall, the automation saved countless hours of manual name expansion

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

If it hasn't been mentioned already, I think you should add help to organize SOTM-US each year (or whatever time interval is appropriate). Tanya On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I'd like to see more discussion and guidance for the US local chapter. So,

Re: [Talk-us] NOAA Composite Shoreline

As with everything, proceed with caution. The metadata for that layer states: These data were automated to provide a suitable geographic information system (GIS) data layer depicting the historical shoreline for the United States. These data are derived from shoreline data that were produced by