[josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

[Viesturs Zariņš]

Hi!

Tested this out, just to look what the images are like.
And noticed that the Bing images about 10m off to the West.
Tested against known accurate data, at several places around Riga, 
Latvia - 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=56.945&lon=24.1183&zoom=14&layers=M
The offset seems quite constant in this area.

Paris, Syndney seems more accurate but Moscow, Tallin has similar offset.
Is there a way to improve the rectification?

Cheers,
Viesturs

On 2010.11.23. 21:24, Ian Dees wrote:
> As of about an hour ago JOSM's slippymap plugin supports Bing aerial maps. I
> haven't publicized it yet because the official (technical) announcement
>   hasn't come out yet specifying what the URL requests should look like or if
> we have to include attribution. That being said, the slippymap plugin at
> r24352 includes support.
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Tobias Wendorff<
> tobias.wendorff at tu-dortmund.de>  wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Steve is working for Microsoft Bing and accieved the access of their
>> aerial imagery for OpenStreetMap:
>>
>> http://blog.stevecoast.com/im-working-at-microsoft-and-were-donating-ima
>>
>> Now it's up to "us" to make the WMS-/Yahoo-plugin read Bing-tiles :-)
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb259689.aspx
>>
>> I think, adding support for OpenLayers would make everything easier,
>> but it would also allow to steal data from Google Maps...
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tobias
>>
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