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?

  • Aniki@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.