OpenAerialMap
OpenAerialMap is a project to create open collection of aerial photographs, which obviously makes it a potential datasource. It was available at http://openaerialmap.org/ but...
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Status
openaerialmap.org is currently offline and no longer serving imagery tiles.
OAM imagery and OpenTopoMap imagery is no longer being served (not available in OpenStreetMap editors), and the openaerialmap.org site is down, but the openaerialmap wiki is up and running still.
See the wiki Main Page status for information on the project status and reasons for being offline. There are some efforts to restart the project, see OAM_2009 wiki page
Old usage information
You can already make use of OpenAerialMap in the OSM editors:
Using OpenAerialMap in Potlatch
OpenAerialMap is not available in potlatch, but OpenTopoMap is. Click the "options" button (the icon at bottom left with a tickbox) and select OpenTopoMap in the drop-down "background" menu.
Using OpenAerialMap in JOSM
With JOSM, install the WMSPlugin. OAM imagery is available via a WMS server. The string to use for the WMS Plugin is "http://openaerialmap.org/wms/?VERSION=1.0&request=GetMap&layers=world&styles=&srs=EPSG:4326&format=image/jpeg"
Using OpenAerialMap in Merkaartor
Go to Tools->Preferences... and choose Background Image. There you have to choose the WMS adapter and in Setup you must select the Server OpenAerialMap. On the way back click Apply and OK. After you have done so, you can activate in the Layers window (left window) the button Map - WMS - OpenAerialMap.
See also
- http://openaerialmap.org/ the website
- Potential Datasources#OpenAerialMap
- OpenTopoMap related site, but all PD data.
- OpenStreetMap described on their wiki (and how we might collaborate)
- blog post when it first appeared
