In OpenStreetMap, the latest Esri World Imagery is from Apr 2020.
However, on the city of Guelph site, they have the aerial imagery available with a permissive license for 2022: Aerial Imagery - Guelph 2022
Is there a process to get this imagery updated in OpenStreetMap? The city site let’s me download the imagery as .sid files.
You will first need to get the license aproved by the License Working Group.
https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licensing_Working_Group
You can contact them via the email linked on that page.
Once the license is approved, you may request it be added to GitHub - osmlab/editor-layer-index: A unified layer index for OSM editors.
Every license based on the Open Government License in Canada must be approved individually
If the data were to be approved/imported, would it then result in an update to the data available from Backgrounds > Esri World Imagery in the ID editor? Just confirming that I’m on track to my goal.
Once the license is approved, you can use it manually in iD.
It may take a while for it to be added to the editor-layer-index and then for iD to update the version they use of the editor-layer-index, and for iD to release a new version and then for that new version to be deployed onto the website.
No, ESRI World Imagery is a different beast altogether. It’s a product from ESRI.
ESRI is not affiliated with OSM, in the sense that we don’t push imagery updates to them, they buy their own imagery. We don’t know when they’re going to update their imagery.
The aerial imagery for Guelph will show up as a seperate entry in iD
EDIT: The imagery as-is is not usable in iD, as it is a downloaded file and iD needs a web service that can serve the imagery in different tiles
I have received confirmation that the license is approved for import.
For posterity:
Thank you, we have confirmed that OGL-Guelph is compatible.
Best,
Kathleen Lu, on behalf of LWGKind regards
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Go back one or two zoom levels, for some reason ESRI Aerial shows images with an older date for higher zoom levels than those with lower zoom levels.
The handling of ESRI Aerial in OSM ID is chaotic, sometimes it shows the normal URL and other times it shows the latest layer derived from ESRI WayBack (wmts configurable by dates). I am looking over the mentioned area (Guelph) Images available with date 28/03/2024, In my opinion, these are fairly recent aerial images and are optimal for mapping.
Recommendation= Consider using the ESRI WayBack URL with the latest available date for Guerph.
The latest Esri aerial images are from Jun 24, 2022 (low resolution) and May 1, 2020 (high resolution). Click on the map to view the metadata of the currently displayed aerial images:
If this green bicycle lane is not visible (see Mapillary photo), then the aerial photos are older than “Bing Maps Aerial” (2021):
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=43.547641&mlon=-80.242875#map=19/43.547641/-80.242875
These are from Jun 24, 2022 (low resolution) and May 1, 2020 (high resolution).
For information, you can add on iD (or JOSM) imagery from Esri World Imagery Wayback. Just follow this guide : Deane Kensok's Diary | Using Esri Wayback Imagery in OSM Editors | OpenStreetMap