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Just anacdotally, I see OSM mentioned a lot, guides for contributing, use in HomeLab and Raspberry Pi articles-- haven't check it out myself in a long time, but
by LanternLight83 3y ago
Just anacdotally, I see OSM mentioned a lot, guides for contributing, use in HomeLab and Raspberry Pi articles-- haven't check it out myself in a long time, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's continued growth really is inevitable, or even has a cumulative snowball-ball component
- moffkalast 3y agoOSM's main problem is that it has no open sourced satelite imagery dataset to display, they're only using borrowed data to build its vector maps on. It just doesn't exist. Until that becomes a thing it'll stay a second rate map app for the average person, unfortunately. It's the only map anyone can actually integrate into anything without an api key and a wallet with a wad of greens in it, so that keeps it relevant for now. Maybe if/when Starship lowers cost to orbit, then we'll see non-profit funded satellites that can source that dataset and keep it up to date.
- ElevenLathe 3y agoDo you happen to know why there isn't any U.S. Government satellite imagery? I understand the really high-resolution stuff is probably from spysats and so classified, but anything else should be public domain, no?
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoEverything under NASA's and NOAA's purview is public domain. High resolution stuff is left to commercial and secret applications. Some states also have high res aerial photography. This was notably obvious in the early days of gmaps when the whole US was Landsat only with aerial for just Massachusetts.