<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Hopefully the <span style="font-size: 10pt; ">bing imagery analyzer (green and red coverage map) is now giving a more helpful overview of coverage in Syria:</span></div><div>http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=33.9&lon=38.7&zoom=7<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">The system gets a bit confused when bing adds new imagery in an area. You can zoom in on a red patch and it turns green. The zoomed out overview ends up being a bit useless. But <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; ">I have written a script
which solves this by re-requesting all red tiles in an area then requesting to re-generate the pyramid of lower zoom tiles. Bit of a brute force solution to the problem, but it seems to have worked. I ran it overnight for Syria</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; ">Harry</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
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