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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Andy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></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=51.522276995783905~0.6418725813313131&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">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><o:p></o:p></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/">http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bing/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></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 lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> David Fisher [mailto:djfisher81@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 22 June 2012 11:09<br><b>To:</b> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Talk-GB] Bing imagery in London<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></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><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>David Fisher</b> <<a href="mailto:djfisher81@gmail.com">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">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.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></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:<o:p></o:p></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><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>