Ishan can you point us to wms or tiles feeds for Bhuvan? Afaik, they are not there, but would be hugely useful for all sorts of work.
Sajjad's Nepal precedent is a good one to approach ISRO again for CartoSat raw data. GN and I want to do this via TIFR, we could also work with Mapbox India. I'm not bothered about licensing terms, since these satellites were launched with public money, and by right their output is public. :-) S.K. -- Shekhar Krishnan @bombayologist http://shekhar.cc On 16-May-2015 11:03 am, "Sajjad Anwar" <m...@sajjad.in> wrote: > Dear GN, > > > We checked Bhuvan today to get some idea. We found that they also use > > Id editor for community contributions. > > This is interesting. I couldn't find though. Can you share a > screenshot? This is particularly interesting for some of us who are > working to make OpenStreetMap software available for outside the > ecosystem. > > > > > We are trying to get the high resolution satellite maps from ISRO for > > school and college mapping projects that we are currently doing. > > > > If openstreetmap.in would like to get the satellite maps from > > Bhuvan/ISRO, what do we need from them? Do they have an API to pull > > them as background maps? We may need them mostly while editing. Since > > Id editor is already used by them, I am wondering they may already be > > using OSM software stack. > > Couple of things to keep in mind here - > > 1. We'd need open licensing, or it should say that tracing for > OpenStreetMap is permitted. > 2. The layers should be in Web Mercator projection. There are quite a > few Bhuvan layers that are not. > > > > > Was there any history of osm community seeking data from ISRO? > > Recently, we got in touch with ISRO for high resolution post > earthquake imagery for Nepal. They shared the raw data and some of us > at Mapbox processed it to make it available on OpenStreetMap - > https://twitter.com/geohacker/status/593114332164001792 > > Sajjad. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >
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