On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 15:34 -0500, Toby Murray wrote: > Oh that is awesome! The images are perfectly aligned with my GPS > traces and as a special bonus, they seem to have been taken during the > winter as there is no foliage on trees to obscure things like there is > in the Yahoo imagery of my area. I can totally count parking spaces > and even see the striping in the roads! I currently don't have > explicit permission to use layers other than the imagery for mapping > in OSM but I will have to play with this and see what's there. > > It might be a good idea to create a wiki page about ArcIMS servers > that contains some of this information. I might look at doing it once > I play with it some more...
Yes, we should have a WMS page, and we should guide new mappers to this page. Tracing aerial imagery is a great way to map, and we should be giving new folks higher resolution imagery than the Yahoo stuff. NAIP has national coverage, but it's leaf-on and not as high resolution as local datasets. I propose we add it here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aerial_imagery For now, just throw up your information. We can start to categorize it by country, state, etc. once we have some entries. > > As for the configuration problems, that's not going to change until > they hire a new director. I pointed out some simple link errors on > their site and got a "yeah... we're not going to touch it" response. > > Thank you! > Toby > > > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > > Toby, > > > > Toby Murray wrote: > >> > >> Oh cool. Do you know how to determine if the server is indeed running > >> the WMS Connector and what the URL would be? I found a "how to > >> configure" page about the connector which seems to indicate that it > >> should live at /servlet/com.esri.wms.Esrimap but the county server > >> (gis.rileycountyks.gov) returns an error for that URL. > > > > Ok they have the WMS connector running. You can add the following WMS source > > to JOSM to retrieve their aerial imagery: > > > > http://gis.rileycountyks.gov/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap?request=GetMap&layers=0&format=image/jpeg&srs=EPSG:4326&version=1.0.0&; > > > > They also offer other layers (Parks, Streets, Churches, Streets, Public > > Buildings, and Cities) which can be accessed by changing layers=0 to > > layers=1...layers=7. > > > > Trying to access the base WMS URL > > > > http://gis.rileycountyks.gov/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap? > > > > with a standard WMS client like QGIS will cause problems because they have > > not configured their server properly; if you want to do that you will have > > to add the line > > > > 65.71.160.130 gisweb > > > > do your /etc/hosts or wherever the DNS override resides on your OS (or phone > > up your friends at the county GIS dept and tell them to replace "gisweb:80" > > by "gis.rileycountyks.gov" in the GetCapabilities response). > > > > Bye > > Frederik > > > > -- > > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
