[josm-dev] Fwd: Filter Google from Imagery?

Matthias Julius lists at julius-net.net
Fri Jan 28 01:02:43 GMT 2011


Matthias Meißer <digi_c at arcor.de> writes:

> Now with Bing there is a good alternative, so only a few 'hardliners'
> would like to do so, to make the current "ultimate" map of their area,
> with fresh material. I guess this guys are able to setup a proxy to do
> so. It's IMHO not on us to make sure that they use the right aerial
> imageries.

There are still many areas where Google's imagery is a lot better than
Bing's.  Like right here where I live Bing imagery only goes to z13.
Yahoo's images are already a lot better and allow some tracing. But, the
best by far are Google's.  The temptation is certainly still there.

Matthias



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