Satelite images (and a question)
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I found this neat site where you can get .jpg satelite images. http://www.terraserver-usa.com/GetImageArea.ashx?t=4&s=10&lon=-77.105144&lat=38.8828&w=200&h=200[^] Where t is the type (1=b/w, 2=topo, 4=color), s=scale (10=1 pixel/meter), lat & lon=decimal degrees, w & h = width and height of image in pixels. Color is not available in all cases. I use this site for some basic background imagery on an application I am developing. Does anyone else know of a better service (free or subscription) that does the same thing? The images on terraserver seem pretty old and I need newer .jpg images. My application has icons that move around the country and so I need a website that can fetch an image (just the image) on demand.
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I found this neat site where you can get .jpg satelite images. http://www.terraserver-usa.com/GetImageArea.ashx?t=4&s=10&lon=-77.105144&lat=38.8828&w=200&h=200[^] Where t is the type (1=b/w, 2=topo, 4=color), s=scale (10=1 pixel/meter), lat & lon=decimal degrees, w & h = width and height of image in pixels. Color is not available in all cases. I use this site for some basic background imagery on an application I am developing. Does anyone else know of a better service (free or subscription) that does the same thing? The images on terraserver seem pretty old and I need newer .jpg images. My application has icons that move around the country and so I need a website that can fetch an image (just the image) on demand.
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http://www.google.com/maphp?hl=en&tab=wl&q=[^] and then click "Satellite" Cheerz Adam _____________________________________ Action without thought is not action Action without emotion is not life
Thanks! I did look at that, and Google Earth (keyhole), and Nasa Worldwind. They were close but not quite what I was looking for. I am looking for color images with 1 meter/pixel resolution (or better) areas other than major cities. Google Maps did not have that resolution and I had a hard time just getting the .jpg image by itself. I also saw Teleatlas but it appears those folks sell you digital images on a per-order basis. I need something I can query and obtain on-the-fly.
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I found this neat site where you can get .jpg satelite images. http://www.terraserver-usa.com/GetImageArea.ashx?t=4&s=10&lon=-77.105144&lat=38.8828&w=200&h=200[^] Where t is the type (1=b/w, 2=topo, 4=color), s=scale (10=1 pixel/meter), lat & lon=decimal degrees, w & h = width and height of image in pixels. Color is not available in all cases. I use this site for some basic background imagery on an application I am developing. Does anyone else know of a better service (free or subscription) that does the same thing? The images on terraserver seem pretty old and I need newer .jpg images. My application has icons that move around the country and so I need a website that can fetch an image (just the image) on demand.
this one too: http://local.live.com/[^]
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I found this neat site where you can get .jpg satelite images. http://www.terraserver-usa.com/GetImageArea.ashx?t=4&s=10&lon=-77.105144&lat=38.8828&w=200&h=200[^] Where t is the type (1=b/w, 2=topo, 4=color), s=scale (10=1 pixel/meter), lat & lon=decimal degrees, w & h = width and height of image in pixels. Color is not available in all cases. I use this site for some basic background imagery on an application I am developing. Does anyone else know of a better service (free or subscription) that does the same thing? The images on terraserver seem pretty old and I need newer .jpg images. My application has icons that move around the country and so I need a website that can fetch an image (just the image) on demand.
you can get 1 meter imagery from different places state by state. States have been assigning various universities (usually universities) to collect all the various satellite images and find the best of the best as a single source. New Mexico collects their 1 meter imagery with the RGIS collection at UNM. Finding good color imagery is actually rare, and worth money. such imagery is easily purchased, but expensive for large areas. What areas are you looking for? lower resolution stuff can be found here: http://www.vterrain.org/Imagery/sources.html[^] _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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you can get 1 meter imagery from different places state by state. States have been assigning various universities (usually universities) to collect all the various satellite images and find the best of the best as a single source. New Mexico collects their 1 meter imagery with the RGIS collection at UNM. Finding good color imagery is actually rare, and worth money. such imagery is easily purchased, but expensive for large areas. What areas are you looking for? lower resolution stuff can be found here: http://www.vterrain.org/Imagery/sources.html[^] _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Actually, I don't know what specific areas I am looking for. The app is used to demonstrate the GPS aspects of some radios and the marketing folks travel all over the US to demonstrate it. It's nice to have some nice looking, local background images as the radio icons move about. The application gets the lat/long from the GPS at runtime and then does an http get to the terraserver-usa.com to get the background .jpg. It's nice and showy and I had to make it somewhat bullet-proof for the marketing folks. So long as they can get an internet connect, they're good. I appreciate that link; there is a lot of other good links on that page.
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Actually, I don't know what specific areas I am looking for. The app is used to demonstrate the GPS aspects of some radios and the marketing folks travel all over the US to demonstrate it. It's nice to have some nice looking, local background images as the radio icons move about. The application gets the lat/long from the GPS at runtime and then does an http get to the terraserver-usa.com to get the background .jpg. It's nice and showy and I had to make it somewhat bullet-proof for the marketing folks. So long as they can get an internet connect, they're good. I appreciate that link; there is a lot of other good links on that page.
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I appreciate that link; there is a lot of other good links on that page.
Ben's site is a great one. He has done a lot for the public access of GIS related capability. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)