> seamless has WMS services; they're not tiled. > > If you want them tiled get a bunch of hardware, stick tilecache on it and > serve WMS-C tiles.
Have you tried to do this on any reasonable scale? You would bring their hardware to its knees with a handful of tilecache_seed.py requests if you were not banned from making more requests very quickly. > Doing it in a sustainable fashion does require some > forward thinking but it doesn't require a 10 person committee and weeks of > discussion on things like voter eligibility for a non-existent project. Certainly agree with that. >OR continue to pressure USGS to do it. Could be that they will do it. > The other answer is that you can just go to ESRI, Google, or Bing and use > their tiled services which are going to be free enough for most people. The stated goal is to have a resource of imagery that is free for all uses, including commercial usage that is prohibited by the TSAs from these companies. > This project isn't like openstreetmap where you'll have people go out and > create imagery and upload it. A kite photo mosaic of the US? While that'd be > cool it sounds like a nightmare from aesthetic, management, and QC aspects. Again, agreed. > Right now I still don't see what's compelling about tiling NAIP. Its not NAIP per se, its about having a reasonable archive of imagery that can actually be used by people to plug into their web apps in a plug and play fashion similar to the way people use the Google Maps or Bing APIs. The original OAM service was great where it had coverage, but many people were simply not interested in using it when it did NOT have coverage where they wanted it ... even though such imagery existed for free out from various sources. The point is to have a service that people can actually just use to do useful things ... not a committee of a bunch of people talking about how to organize OTHER people to help them create a service that they can actually do useful things with. Jeff _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://openaerialmap.org/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org
