jomo

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[โ€“] jomo@mstdn.io 5 points 23 hours ago

taken with satellites. You'd have clouds in the way, very low resolution, and other issues. The higher quality ones are aerial images and this is what people are usually looking for. There are a couple sources listed at https://osm.wiki/Vertical/_Aerial/_Photographs

Getting these to display in an application depends on the application, and there is no "OSM application" except for maybe the iD editor. Everything else is developed by third parties. 2/2

@gandalf_der_12te

[โ€“] jomo@mstdn.io 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

@gandalf_der_12te it's quite a common misconception that OpenStreetMap is a map, and arguably its name and the website showing a map don't really help there.

But it really is just a database of coordinates and tags that describe features found and those coordinates. You can use this database to generate maps, and there are several projects that do this.

Another common misconception is that what Google and other big players call "Satellite" view or images is rarely 1/2