On 11/03/12 11:58, Grant Slater wrote: > Talk-au, > > I am pleased to introduce new grayscale imagery for all of Australia > at 2.5 metre resolution.
I didn't realise it had so much cloud cover. That is a pity but at least there are still large areas cloud free. On the whole though it gives mostly consistent coverage across the whole of Australia (quite a large area!) which hopefully will help out rural mapping. > > “The Australian Geographic Reference Image” is produced by Geoscience > Australia and made available under Australian Creative Commons > Attribution 2.5. > > http://agri.openstreetmap.org/ > > JOSM tms url: tms:http://agri.openstreetmap.org/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png framm has added it to the default JOSM list, so you can just refresh the default sources and you should see it added to the list. > Recommended source tag: source=AGRI > Geoscience Australia’s IP and Copyright Manager has confirmed that the > attribution requirement does NOT carry through to tracings derived > from the aerial imagery. > Quote: “The attribution requirement does not have to carry through to > the tracings from the aerial imagery.” - IP and Copyright Manager, > Geoscience Australia That is an unexpected bonus. I knew we would have to attribute the imagery, but being able to trace and release those tracings under CC0 is even better. > > The service is very much in beta at the moment and may go offline for > testing and revision at times. It will also likely take me a few weeks > to fix the black overlap issues. I’ll also make the 2950GB of source > imagery files available once I have worked out a suitable hosting > arrangement. It is good that you think you can actually fix the black parts near the MGA zone boundaries. > > Thank you to: > - Andrew Harvey for pointing out that the imagery was available: > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2012-February/008919.html > - OSMF for supplying hardware + funding for the purchase of the imagery. > - Geoscience Australia Thanks Grant for actually following through and getting the imagery hosted as usable tiles.
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