Querying the Esri World Imagery with OSM?

General talk
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Hello,

ESRI recently released their collection of satellite imagery and allowed OSM editors to use them as the background for mapping:
https://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2017/08/24/world-imagery-in-osm

I am wondering, would there be any addition to some of the OSM query online services to enable downloading these satellite images?
For example: through Overpass API or similar service?

I would welcome any reply on this.

Best Regards
Bernard

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They are also available in the latest release of the iD editor: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2017-August/017677.html

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The blog post you cited already answers your question:

Aerial imagery is only provided for OSM mapping purposes, e.g. as background layer in said OSM editors. Any other use is usually not permitted, depending on respective license terms.

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Thank you for the replies both muralito and escada!
I assumed that the ESRI satellite images are already implement, as this is mentioned in the ESRI article.

I would like to know if I can somehow query those satellite images through url, the same way I do that now through Overpass API.

Does any one know whether this functionality will maybe be added to the Overpass API?

Or can this be done directly through ESRI services?

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Overpass API serves raw OSM data, not aerial imagery! I have no idea what makes you believe this could be any different.

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Thank you for the clarification mmd.

I didn’t refresh the page, so I haven’t seen your first reply. Sorry.

I also apologize for having such a stupid assumption. Thank you once again for the answer!

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Don’t worry. There are many tools and services in the OSM universe. It’s not always obvious what they’re good for or how to use them.