I am working on a computer vision personal project and need satellite imagery for my training/validation data. Currently I am working with some mildly-deprecated source code to fetch from Bing’s map tile service. I have some code that I wrote to extract all the tiles which cover a specified region given a lat/lon bounding box and range of zoom levels. With Bing, I just need to construct a quad-key for each desired XYZ and then throw a GET request to a URL using that quad-key and boom I’ve got the tile.
As I said this Bing tool is being deprecated and I am trying to decide between using Azure Maps or Planet. Ideally I would like to integrate this tooling alongside my existing process so I can run my model on datasets from various sources.
I could very much be wrong here but I believe with Planet I could achieve an extremely similar workflow to what I currently have by leveraging the Global Basemap. The issue that I am running into is that I appear to not have any mosaics added to my account yet:
% curl -u "PLA<redacted>:" "https://api.planet.com/basemaps/v1/mosaics" | jq .
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 124 100 124 0 0 1080 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1087
{
"_links": {
"_self": "https://api.planet.com/basemaps/v1/mosaics?api_key=PLA<redacted>"
},
"mosaics": []
}As you can see the “mosaics” list is empty (I have a valid API key just removed it in the example obviously).
Would love some guidance if anyone can point me in the right direction. I have read thru a lot of the documentation and played around in the Planet Explorer, but I am still confused on how I can add the Global Basemap mosaic to my account so that I can query from it.
Notably I would like to get as high of zoom as possible. It looks like SkySat has the highest with 18, does this specification matter for how I add this to my account?
