Satellite imagery is old of National Harbor in Washington DC area

General talk
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http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=19/38.78391/-77.01377

The park with the boat has been replaced by a building with restaurants, shops and hotel.

See…

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Granite+City+Food+%26+Brewery/@38.7840543,-77.0143621,227m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x89b7b07456b38cb7:0x1526c23e5d1a6c21!2sLocal+Motors+National+Harbor!8m2!3d38.783301!4d-77.0137517!3m4!1s0x0:0x4a7cf9ae4bc12fdc!8m2!3d38.7841346!4d-77.0145665!6m1!1e1

How to get the satellite imagery updated on OSM so it is current and we can add these points of interest.

Thanks.

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Go there, take photos (ideally geolocated), get tracks (eg with GPS or a phone). Aerial photos are useful but not at all essential for mapping.

It may also be worth checking Strava’s layers as these may show new roads/paths reasonably well if its an area used by the Strava community.

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The aerial imagery that OSM has access to is that which BIng are prepared to release for this purpose. You are trying to look a gift horse in the mouth.

I guess if you have a few $1,000s to spare, you could commission your own aerial survey of the area.

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With the increasing number of drones, crowdsourcing aerial imagery projects should be starting right now… 10. 9. 8…
(Just like OSM started with tracks)

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On the right side of the ID editor, select the Layers icon, then “Background Settings”. Then select “USGS Large Scale Imagery” . This is newer than Bing in many parts of the US, although the resolution is lower, I have found alignment to be fairly good.

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At least in the UK, it would be illegal to use drones in most places where you would actually want to map. That’s for a combination of safety and privacy reasons.

(There would also be a log of work in georeferencing the results.)