Brilliant, thanks for the info and links.<br>So it looks as if they are slowly updating the whole lot -- shame they felt it necessary to drop the old before the new was ready though. Going by the yellow areas ("current release") in your link [1], it looks like much of the home counties now have the new imagery, whilst London itself does not... ah well, just have to be patient I guess.<br>
Thanks again,<br>David.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Andy Robinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajrlists@gmail.com" target="_blank">ajrlists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">BING have been updating their imagery [1] and the latest update for London (June 2012) is from Oct 2011 [2] which I guess means that the previous imagery has been dropped, even though it was better for our purposes.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Cheers<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Andy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">[1] <a href="http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=51.522276995783905%7E0.6418725813313131&lvl=8&dir=0&sty=h&app=50493%7Emyappname%7Eworldtour%7Ep_rid%7Ec86e326e-c476-44a7-9afb-2d199eecd2ed%7Ep_c%7E0%7Ep_i%7E0&FORM=LMLTCC" target="_blank">http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=51.522276995783905~0.6418725813313131&lvl=8&dir=0&sty=h&app=50493~myappname~worldtour~p_rid~c86e326e-c476-44a7-9afb-2d199eecd2ed~p_c~0~p_i~0&FORM=LMLTCC</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">[2] <a href="http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bing/" target="_blank">http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bing/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> David Fisher [mailto:<a href="mailto:djfisher81@gmail.com" target="_blank">djfisher81@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 22 June 2012 11:09<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Talk-GB] Bing imagery in London<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
<div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi,<br>Thought I would flag this up with the Talk-GB list as well, since London seems to be very quiet.<br>Has anyone else noticed Bing's imagery at highest zoom levels (<10m ish) has disappeared recently? And does anyone know why, or if it will be returning? It's a big setback for tracing buildings and distinguishing close detail in dense urban areas where GPS can be very poor.<br>
Thanks,<br>David.<br><br><br><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>David Fisher</b> <<a href="mailto:djfisher81@gmail.com" target="_blank">djfisher81@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 3:45 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-london] Bing imagery in London<br>To: <a href="mailto:talk-gb-london@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-gb-london@openstreetmap.org</a><br><br><br>Glad it's not just me! I noticed this as well, seems to have happened 3 or 4 days ago (hard to tell exactly because the areas I've been working on most recently have tiles cached). It is a bit of a setback.<u></u><u></u></p>
<div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br><br><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Paul Williams <<a href="mailto:pjwderby@googlemail.com" target="_blank">pjwderby@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The quality of Bing imagery in a very large part of London (it appears<br>this includes all of Central London) seems to have suddenly dropped.<br>The highest resolution images have gone leaving images which are at a<br>
lesser resolution, are darker and appear to be affected more greatly<br>by shadows - making it more difficult to map buildings etc accurately.<br>I've checked this in JOSM, Potlatch and on the Bing maps website<br>itself, both yesterday and this morning. Does anyone know if this is<br>
just a temporary problem (perhaps while they're updating the images or<br>something like that) or not?<br><br>Cheers<br>Paul Williams<br>(Paul The Archivist)<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-gb-london mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Talk-gb-london@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">Talk-gb-london@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-london" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-london</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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