New ortho 2024/2025

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There are several new ones from 2024/2025. I’m not sure though which ones we can use.

Personally, I’m mainly interested in aerial photos labelled in OSM as 5 cm and 10 cm resolution. Presumably the “ORTHOPHOTOS” and “IMAGE_AERIENNE_ORTHO” on the server.

If these could be added, that would be helpful.

[Edit: Resolved: can be done by adding it as a temporary layer]

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That should be:
If I could add them, that would be helpful.

Read the instructions and make a pull request (typically after testing as a custom layer in one of the editors).

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Thanks. Even better if I can do it myself. Apparently, it doesn’t even need to be added.

I gave up on github .. somehow I found it impossible to create an account there. Have you tried their 10 steps signup process recently?

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Did it ever occur to you that some people do not know what a pull request is and are not interested in learning that? or don’t have the time, energy, capacity to learn?

What is the point of having a community if you can not ask for help?

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There is nothing difficult about it (literally just editing a text template), and it is actually all explained on the ELI repository, you know teach a man to fish and so on … instead of trying to make them dependent on the good will of others.

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Weirdly, the difficulty is the current sign-up process. Give it a try (without buying an iphone before).

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You should be able to sign up with google or apple if you want to do that, is the 2FA causing an issue? That would be good to know, because maybe moving to codeberg might be an option.

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It’s the weird captcha. When trying to do an update for osm tags (another OSM github), I went through the 6-step-captcha three times .. to be told it’s currently not working. Maybe I need to find an “AI” who does signups for me ..

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I don’t want to make people dependant, I’d like them to be able to rely on the community when the need to. If a friend is cooking and is missing some fish for their meal, will you go get one in the nearby store, or will you tell them that they can find fishing tutorials on youtube?

All is explained, but it is not trivial for normal people. What is a fork, a commit, a pull request? how do i use command line? Please try to imagine not knowing any of these concepts and being told that’s it’s easy.

Some people are wanting to learn, and thanks for offering to teach them if they ask, but some don’t have the ability to. It would be nice not to dedain them.

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You don’t need to know any of that to propose adding a file to a github repo (or put better: the github UI does it all for you, explaining what it is doing along the way).

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The following “custom” url works:

https://raster.sitg.ge.ch/arcgis/rest/services/ORTHOPHOTOS_2024_EPSG3857/MapServer/tile/{zoom}/{y}/{x}