ok so i’m trying to understand the structure of the whole OSM project. i generally like it but it’s confusing and i’m confused.
i’m specifically looking for satellite image data (landscape as seen from above, no infrastructure data, just real photography). i like satellite images a lot because it provides a much better feel for the landscape than infrastructure data alone. such as: how many trees are there, how much nature is there around, …
does OSM itself do this? (ideally without having to be logged in)
i found OpenMapTiles which seems to also provide satellite data; but i’m not sure what their relation to OSM is. are they a separate project?
You can check out official (as from the government) aerial images. I know German states have such. In Hessen it’s named ATKIS DOP20, I think.There are different ways to make these images. Digitale Orthophotos try to fix the photos with geodata to get rid of perspective and such. I think there is even a clear sky version, which picks the best images from different years. All such images are fixed up in some way, that includes google etc
These have quite open licenses https://opendata.hessen.de/de/dataset/atkis-dop-20 : https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/zero-2-0
yeah i have thought about collecting all publicly accessible aerial views and putting them on some kind of disk for backup.
the issue is, just to map all of germany would take 3 TB of storage space if you make photos with 30 cm per pixel. for the whole world it would be 3000 TB and i don’t have that amount of storage space.
You can use their WMS API, I use that in JOSM as layers simetimes