With the work that Google does, the imagery is typically locked behind the Fusion API which works just closely and just differently enough from the Google Maps API to be fairly frustrating. If there is a way we can work with Google to simply get the tiles from what they are pulling together it would be considerably more help.<div>
<br></div><div>Thanks for the updates -- hopefully people don't mind us using this channel for keeping tabs on this.</div><div><br></div><div>David<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Mikel Maron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikel_maron@yahoo.com">mikel_maron@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Google apparently has also requested an acquistion<br>
<div> </div>== Mikel Maron ==<br><span><a href="http://mapkibera.org/" target="_blank">http://mapkibera.org/</a></span><br>+254 (0) 724899738<br><a href="mailto:mikel@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank">mikel@osmfoundation.org</a><div>
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Andrew Turner <<a href="mailto:ajturner@highearthorbit.com" target="_blank">ajturner@highearthorbit.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:bitner@dbspatial.com" target="_blank">bitner@dbspatial.com</a><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> talk <<a href="mailto:talk@openaerialmap.org" target="_blank">talk@openaerialmap.org</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wed, January 13, 2010 8:15:37 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OAM-talk] Haiti Imagery<br></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
David William Bitner wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Are there any members of this group actively working on
pulling together imagery for Haiti? If so, I would appreciate it if
you could update this list with the work you are doing. We have a lot
of expertise in this group that we can potentially leverage to help in
this response and a lot of people from this list who will be responding
in other capacities.
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Jeff Johnson has been tackling this since last night:<br>
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<pre><span><a href="http://hypercube.telascience.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/home/ortelius/haiti/haiti.map" target="_blank">http://hypercube.telascience.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/home/ortelius/haiti/haiti.map</a>&</span><br>
<br>That has the 4 port au prince sheets ... this is just a basic 4 point<br>warp on the corners, so let me spend some more time on it tomorrow<br>before having anyone digitize from this, but that should be good<br>enough to go ahead and cache and stand up into a basic app for now.<br>
Just dont think its accurate enough for digitizing.<br><br>--<br><br>Mikel asked about putting up a TileCache. <br><br>UNOSAT is doing some captures now and will share out the imagery.<br><br><span>OpenStreetMap resources: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti</a></span><br>
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