[OSM-Talk-ZA] Aerial images from Microsoft/Bing

[Grant Slater]

On 30 November 2010 19:28, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Microsoft has given OSM permission to trace from their Bing aerial images,
> subject to certain restrictions on the editor being used. For the
> foreseeable future it will only be available under the Potlatch 2 editor
> which is currently in testing.
>

Potlatch 2 went line on www.openstreetmap.org yesterday. Bing Imagery today.

Potlatch 2 announcement:
http://opengeodata.org/openstreetmap-editor-potlatch-2-launched

Bing Aerial Imagery Announcement:
http://opengeodata.org/microsoft-imagery-details

Bing has already been enabled in Potlatch2. The imagery is very impressive.

Pofadder, Northern Cape is high resolution :-)
http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2&lat=-29.12688&lon=19.39702&zoom=16

I've built a brief list of high resolution areas in South Africa here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Coverage#South_Africa

Regards
 Grant