OpenStreetMap
Hi,
The satellite image of the place where I am born (Wallis in Switzerland) is cloudy. How often will be this satellite image updated? What can we do to accelerate this process? If I ask the Wallis canton if they are willing to donate to OSM a more recent satelite image, could we use it? What is the normal process here?
Kind regards
Antoine
Discussion
Comment from rab on 25 January 2020 at 10:59
Hi, esri seems to be more recent, and it is cloudless.
Comment from Magick93 on 26 January 2020 at 17:32
Hi Antoine, You can see and use multiple backgrounds within the ID editor, press the B key and select other satellite imageries available. Hope there is one cloudless, clear, accurate, and relatively recent. Good luck!
There is no exact frecuency for the updates, from experience these get updated anywhen about every 1.5 - 3 years.
If you can get an oficial answer or documents from the local authority allowing OSM to use other imageries they provide, then yes it could be included within the editors.
Best. Magick93.
Comment from SimonPoole on 27 January 2020 at 08:24
@Magick93 there is no local imagery available for the Valais. What is more problematic that essentially all of the global mosaics have issues with very mountainous regions so that even non-cloudy bits tend to not work so well.