Re: [Talk-us] USGS imagery (was: Changeset 5393406)

2010-08-13 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Eric Wolf ebw...@gmail.com wrote: Even though they are technically just hosting public domain data, the nature of public domain is that they can claim copyright over it within the context of their hosting service (just as people can print it in a book and claim

Re: [Talk-us] USGS imagery (was: Changeset 5393406)

2010-08-13 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-12 22:08, Eric Wolf wrote: I'll dig around a little... personally, I'm wary of using the Terraserver imagery unless there has been a specific license granted to OSM to use it. Even though they are technically just hosting public domain data, the nature of public domain is that they

Re: [Talk-us] USGS imagery (was: Changeset 5393406)

2010-08-12 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-12 21:17, Eric Wolf wrote: I know this seems like a silly question, coming from me and all, but where are you getting your NAIP tiles from? Kinda glad you asked (someone else). There are some issues. 1. Microsoft-Terraserver-now-MSRMaps-hosted Urban imagery set is 0.25m/pel,

Re: [Talk-us] USGS imagery (was: Changeset 5393406)

2010-08-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.netalan_mintz%2b...@earthlink.net wrote: It sure would be nice if these individual image sets were available through a common interface, instead of having to find/add all the separate links. 1) Check out

Re: [Talk-us] USGS imagery (was: Changeset 5393406)

2010-08-12 Thread Eric Wolf
Getting a consistent directory of services has been one of my crusades at the USGS. Fortunately, other people have picked up on it as well. The services behind the new National Map Viewer 2.0 will all follow a more predictable naming scheme. I'm hoping the USGS will do more caching of tiles as