[OSM-newbies] Bing Image Quality

[Kenneth Pardue]

That's excellent news!  Now I just hope it doesn't take them 5 years to get it.  Open source doesn't exactly get a good reception in my area (people aren't very technically literate and are easily sold on simply Microsoft solutions) so anything that I can do to ease the experience for users that might be coming into the OpenStreetmap data seems like a good thing, at least to provide them with a quick response when they report a bug in the area.


On Jan 5, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:

> 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.
> 
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> Cheers,
> Sven Arvidsson
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