Jochen Topf writes… Rapideye gives Chile sat images to OSM The german satellite company Rapideye has released satellite images for the areas in Chile affected by the earth quake to OpenStreetMap. The images are copyrighted but can be used to add data to OSM. For information on how to include these images into JOSM and [...]
Continue reading...6. March 2010
So one of the original poster childs of neogeography has folded – Platial have bit the dust! Geocommons have rescued some of the data (but I still couldn’t find my pennies there yet). Way back in 2007, I used Platial for recording where I found lucky pennies on the streets. (Nowadays I use Flickr to record [...]
Continue reading...6. March 2010
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team now has a mailing list. During crisis, the HOT list supports coordination among the OSM community, along side appropriate local country lists, and the talk/dev lists when needed. It is the point where disaster responders and affected people can connect directly to members of the OSM community ready to help. In quieter [...]
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6. March 2010
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