[OSM-newbies] Bing Image Quality

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 10:58 -0600, Kenneth Pardue wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, the Bing imagery is vastly superior in most areas
> to the Yahoo imagery I've been using, but I do wonder if there will be
> ongonig updates to the quality of the Bing imagery?  In most rural
> areas of my home state (and in Louisiana, there are many) the Bing
> imagery is extremely blurry and only marginally better than Yahoo.
> 
> There's quite a few Mapdust bugs in such areas that are easily fixable
> and that I'd like to work on resolving, but the imagery is so blurry
> it's hard to tell if I'm doing any good.  I've seen reference to MS
> devoting effort to getting higher quality imagery for the whole world,
> is this the case?

I'm in a similar situation here in Sweden (most major cities have
excellent imagery but not the rural areas which is what I'm mostly
interested in). Fortunately it does sound like things will improve:

        We have a collaboration underway with DigitalGlobe to do one of
        the largest aerial imagery surveys ever undertaken, covering the
        US and Western Europe at 30cm resolution.  (The camera we’re
        using to do this is an impressive technical achievement,
        developed by our Vexcel team in Graz, Austria.)  By sharing use
        of the imagery with the OSM community, we hope to enable more
        OSM goodness.  Maybe one day we can find a way to fund this kind
        of imaging over less developed parts of the world.
        
From http://styleisviolence.com/openstreetmap/ via the Weekly OSM
Summary.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 760BDD22

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/newbies/attachments/20110105/214601ea/attachment.pgp>