OpenStreetMap
My wish for OSM would be to have its underlying satellite photos updated more often. That would really help keeping the map up-to-date. As of now, the satellite photos are severely outdated. I am helping to update Qatar and with the breakneck pace of the road development in this country, it would be tremendously helpful for mappers to have up-to-date satellite photos on OSM.
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2013년 8월 27일 11:11에 Vincent de Phily님의 의견
Note that OSM itself doesn’t provide or manage satellite imagery. It relies on third-parties that kindly allow us to use their imagery for mapping. Aquiring and processing high-res imagery is a time-consuming and costly business, so it is often not very up to date nor comprehensive.
The most widely used imagery comes from Bing, but there are other providers, from mapbox (who promises low-res but frequently-updated imagery soon) to local sources to self-made shots using DIY balloons or drones. If you ue JOSM, there is a nice pre-made list of existing imagery, and with any editor it is easy to add imagery not in the default list if you know the link. Have a look, maybe some sources are more up to date than Bing for your area.
2013년 8월 27일 12:05에 SheikRon님의 의견
Thanks Vincent. I have registered for Mapbox account and found out that to have underlying satellite photos, we have to pay.
2013년 8월 27일 12:07에 Jean-Marc Liotier님의 의견
If you are in a hurry, you may want to acquire level 3A orbital orthophography from a provider such as RapidEye: http://www.rapideye.com
2013년 8월 27일 13:11에 robert님의 의견
I don’t know how much attention is payed to this page, but it exists and it couldn’t hurt to add your request to it.
2013년 8월 27일 22:54에 Vincent de Phily님의 의견
You need to pay mapbox to see their satellite imagery as a user, on your mapbox map. But like with Bing, OSM contributors have a special permission to use them for free to improve the map.
Taken from JOSM’s default list of available imagery providers, the url is tms[17]:http://{switch:a,b,c}.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/openstreetmap.map-4wvf9l0l/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png With JOSM you just go to preference, tms/wms, and activate the corresponding entry. I’m not sure what the procedure is for other editors.
2013년 8월 28일 16:29에 SheikRon님의 의견
Thanks again Vincent. I installed JOSM but everytime I click on the Edit option, I keep getting this message: “Editing failed - make sure JOSM or Merkaartor is loaded and remote control option is enabled”. My browser is IE 10.
2013년 9월 2일 15:05에 malenki님의 의견
You should try Firefox or Chromium -
or just use the download button in JOSM and use the slippy map there to edit the region of your desire.