We’ve added the imagery from the Canton Solothurn to the mapproxy server to support remapping efforts by Potlatch 2 users.
More info: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SOGIS_WMS
Experimental MapProxy Service
We have a number of sources of aerial imagery available in Switzerland that are accessible by so called WMS servers. JOSM supports such servers directly, but P2 (the editor imbedded ob the OSM map page) users and users of a number of mobile apps cannot access such data.
Additionaly in some cases the imagery is not available in the “Spherical Mercator” projection that most OSM tools use as default.
We now have, on a test and experimental base, a MapProxy instance running that supports reading imagery from WMS servers and serving this as Google/OSM format tiles, reprojected if necessary.
Up to now we have added 2 layers:
- City of Uster 2008 10cm resolution aerial imagery
- the city map of Zürich, released yesterday during the opendata.ch 2012 event
We will consider further layers, we would however point out that in the current environment the capacity of the server is limited.
City of Uster makes Aerial Imagery and Street Data available for OSM
The City of Uster GIS centre has made aerial imagery and street data available for use in OpenStreetMap. The imagery was captured in 2008 and has 10cm nominal resolution. Access to the data is provided via the cities WMS server.
We thank Mr Neumann from the GIS centre for the cooperation and Michael Spreng for establishing contact..
The imagery can be accessed either via the City of Uster WMS or via the experimental SOSM mapproxy server. More information can be found in the Wiki.
GEOsummit 2012 Wrap Up
Michael and Thomas have written a summary of our impressions from GEOsummit 2012.
Welcome to SOSM
We are happy to announce the creation of the Swiss OpenStreetMap Association during the GEOsummit 2012 in Berne today, June 20th 2012.
SOSM was created to further the goals of the OpenStreetMap movement, to strengthen the contacts with authorities and industry, to facilitate the activities of OSM community members in Switzerland and to represent the Swiss OSM community in other organisations.
OpenStreetMap has always been a grassroots, at sometimes anarchistic, movement. SOSM sees its role as providing some structure when needed and remaining as lightweight and as unobstrusive as possible.
The initial board is composed of Sarah Hoffmann, Stephane Henriod, Thomas Ineichen and Simon Poole.
OpenStreetMap Switzerland in Numbers
The OpenStreetMap data set for Switzerland contains
- over 44’000 km of roads
- over 46’000 km of agricultural and forest tracks
- over 7’000 km of paved bicycle and foot paths
- over 17’000 km of unpaved paths
More than 6’000 active OSM community members gathered the data and the data volume is growing over 20% per year.