[Talk-GB] More imagery

2019-03-06 Thread chilton steve via Talk-GB
Would OSM benefit from another imagery source? Getmapping have tentatively offered theirs. See: https://itsahill.wordpress.com/2019/03/05/edina-geoforum-2019/ and get back to me via any of the normal methods. Cheers Steve Chilton (@steev8)___ Talk-GB m

Re: [Talk-GB] More imagery

2019-03-06 Thread Dan S
Op woensdag 6 maart 2019 schreef Dan Stowell : > Yes, I'm sure it would. Are there any specific nicenesses of these aerials - eg hi red, recent, different time of day? > > I'm currently having discussions about mapping solar panels in the UK. Both manually and semi automatically. (Don't worry, no w

Re: [Talk-GB] More imagery

2019-03-06 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Steve, >Would OSM benefit from another imagery source? Getmapping have tentatively offered theirs. See: https://itsahill.wordpress.com/2019/03/05/edina-geoforum-2019/ and get back to me via any of the normal methods. > >Cheers >Steve Chilton (@steev8) It's certainly worth exploring and I think

Re: [Talk-GB] More imagery

2019-03-06 Thread chilton steve via Talk-GB
Dan, Thanks for response. Don't know specifics at the moment. That is part of the discussion that needs to take place. Cheers Steve > On 06 March 2019 at 16:55 Dan Stowell wrote: > > Yes, I'm sure it would. Are there any specific nicenesses of these > aerials - eg hi red, recent, differ

Re: [Talk-GB] More imagery

2019-03-06 Thread chilton steve via Talk-GB
Rob, Thanks for the response. In fact I would prefer to hand over to OSMUK or some more formal part of the project, particularly if they have experience of such discussions/negotiations. I don't know what the level of content is. They market themselves as leading provider in UK so I don't thin

Re: [Talk-GB] More imagery

2019-03-06 Thread Rob Nickerson
Sounds good. Although it is worth noting that OSM UK is us - i.e. the OpenStreetMap community in the UK. Yes it does happen to be a registered company which helps in some conversations (some companies like to speak with other companies) but to get things moving fastest we welcome help from fellow O

Re: [Talk-GB] More imagery

2019-03-07 Thread Jez Nicholson
As an aside: Dan S. may be interested in the list of (ground mounted) solar farms that I am building up at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_United_Kingdom#List_of_under_construction_and_operational_UK_Ground_Mounted_Solar_Farms and also talking to the OpenInfraMap team ht

Re: [Talk-GB] More imagery

2019-03-07 Thread Marc Gemis
Even before the Belgian local chapter was formed, some community member(s) wrote to AIV (Flemish agency for information) [1] whether we could use their aerial imagery for tracing. We got that permission. Similar requests were made to the other regions in Belgium. It does not really matter whether t

Re: [Talk-GB] More imagery

2019-03-07 Thread phil
Shropshire Council use GetMapping on their PROW map. It is very clear and recent. I would find it very useful as a mapping source. Phil (trigpoint) On Thursday, 7 March 2019, Marc Gemis wrote: > Even before the Belgian local chapter was formed, some community > member(s) wrote to AIV (Flemish a

Re: [Talk-GB] More imagery

2019-03-07 Thread Dan Stowell
Yes, I'm sure it would. Are there any specific nicenesses of these aerials - eg hi red, recent, different time of day? I'm currently having discussions about mapping solar panels in the UK. Both manually and semi automatically. (Don't worry, no weird imports!) Although existing imagery might be fi

Re: [Talk-GB] More imagery

2019-03-08 Thread chilton steve via Talk-GB
All, Following on from Rob's email the contact person for Getmapping is: Jake Lauder - jake.lau...@getmapping.com mailto:jake.lau...@getmapping.com Web:http://www.getmapping.com Address: Virginia Villas, High Street, Hartley Wintney, RG27 8NW If making contact I suggest you mention the discuss