We should be asking about this on talk-us. cc'd there. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > While editing near Leamington ON in Potlatch, I clicked by accident on > the Background -> "OSM US USGS Large Scale Aerial Imagery". It came up > with really sharp and recent orthoimagery. It's of similar quality to > the SWOOP images I buy at $50/km^2 for work, and covers some areas that > Bing doesn't. Images look to be from 2010 or so, guessing from the > visible wind power projects in SW Ontario. > > Trying out several areas near the US border I found: > * that coverage is seemingly random; some isolated areas have it, > contiguous areas near the border might not > * it's coming from a very slow server which only works if you're zoomed > in very close > * it's not seemingly available from a public WMS, as any of the USGS > servers I tried blank at the Canadian border. > > Surprisingly, it seems that not all USGS imagery is public domain > (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/USGS_High_Resolution_Orthoimagery#Data_License). > So, can we use it? > > cheers, > Stewart > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > talk...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
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