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New Imagery for Monongalia County, WV, US
After a year-ish of requesting from my colleagues that the license terms be updated on our most recent county imagery to allow OSM usage, I have succeeded. Please see below:
URL of the imagery
https://gis.morgantownwv.gov/image/services/Imagery/Monongalia_County_2022_Aerial_Imagery/ImageServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Two letter country code
US
Desired layer name
Monongalia County 2022 Aerial Imagery
License
Custom - "Open Street Map Disclaimer: MMAGIC Associate Members are hereby defined or referred to as 'Associate Members'. MMAGIC is pleased to provide a high-resolution aerial imagery to OpenStreetMap (OSM), in support of its mapping initiatives. By using the imagery in the OSM editor, users understand and agree that they may only use the imagery to trace and validate edits that must be provided back to OSM. Users may not download the imagery or use the imagery for any other purpose. Associate Members retain all right, title, and interest in and to the imagery. The imagery, when made available, is provided “as is”. Any errors are not the responsibility of MMAGIC; Associate Members disclaim all warranties, express or implied, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Users may recover from the Associate Members only direct damages up to an amount equal to the fees they have paid to the Associate Members to use the imagery on OSM, if any. The Associate Members are not liable for any other damages, including consequential, lost-profit, special, indirect, incidental, or punitive damages."
Is the license compatible with OSM?
Yes
Attribution (text, URL, required?)
Collected and processed by the Thrasher Group, 2022. Owned by the Associate Members of MMAGIC:
- Monongalia County Commission and related offices
- City of Morgantown
- Morgantown Utility Board
Privacy policy (URL)
https://www.morgantownwv.gov/privacy/
Icon
none
Bounding polygon
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1913126
Unfortunately, it looks like everything under the Imagery folder is behind a login wall. (Other services are accessible.) Either this is the wrong URL or the permissions need to be adjusted in order for users to be able to access the iamgery.
Nice find on that privacy policy - it seems like it was developed for a different sandbox long ago. In general, is that policy OK? I can work to develop a new one for just our GIS.
Yes, seems our server went down. Not a great start! Let me look into it
Well, looks like the server wasn't actually down after all. Public location of the imagery's overview is here: https://gis.morgantownwv.gov/portal/home/item.html?id=6a31d90f92af4b76b28ac4b1667487aa
Still seems like the actual service is in a non-public folder, however. I'll work with my GIS analyst to update that when he returns to work and post here when we correct it.
This appears open to public: https://gis.morgantownwv.gov/image/rest/services/Imagery/Monongalia_County_2022_Aerial_Imagery/ImageServer
OK, so, intricacies of ArcGIS server are at play here... https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/publish-services/windows/communicating-with-a-wms-service-in-a-web-browser.htm
Seems we can get it to work by adding parameters to the URL - maybe getmap is the request we need to make?
https://gis.morgantownwv.gov/image/services/Imagery/Monongalia_County_2022_Aerial_Imagery/ImageServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Can you update your comments at the same place instead of leaving a new one for each update...? I personally don't think it is something urgent so you can sort everything out and update us when it is ready
@cicku Thank you for the direction, sorry about the excessive email notifications.
Please consider using Edit in your comments, OK? People watching the project have received 9 emails/comments.
@cicku, not sure I understand your question. I wrote it based on the licensing language presented as an example on the OSM wiki. I then presented the language to the consortium of government entities that owns the imagery and they agreed to add it to the imagery service. See language here, in the item details for the WMS: https://gis.morgantownwv.gov/portal/home/item.html?id=f2830b58cd894fa0a0712e2cc9537bba
Very cool, this page is what I need (did not find it in Google).
I will submit a PR for this imagery soon.