[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Add New Image Availability Announcement (#1541)

[Simon Poole]

@tomhughes in general the editors do default to the best imagery for the non-global sources. The problem with bing vs DG (or any global layer) is that "somebody" would actually have to grade the imagery and provide polygons where one or the other is best (taking in to account all other sources on top). 

That is naturally unlikely to happen, besides the all the other problems: moving target, likely so many polygons that the editors would blow up and so on. 

Note on the side: bing in principle can provide max zoom meta-data per region that could be used to determine if the imagery is hi-res or not.

-- 
You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1541#issuecomment-301297902
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/rails-dev/attachments/20170514/b9f4d85e/attachment-0001.html>