On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Shekhar Krishnan <shek...@topomancy.com> wrote: > 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. :-)
Agree Shekhar. Just that we'll need this in writing to use with OpenStreetMap :) > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > -- Sajjad Anwar http://geohacker.in _______________________________________________ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in