[Talk-bd] [OSM-talk] Bing coverage of Bangladesh

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

Hi all,

Experimenting with this new tool [1] by Ant, I've seen that there is a
very large area where high resolution Bing imagery is available, east
and south of Chittagong (including Cox's Bazar, for example).

Also, there is now coverage north of Dhaka, that includes Mymensingh.

This is in addition to previously available coverage of Dhaka,
Chittagong, Khulna and Rajshahi [2].

The recent changes (within last month) suggest that Bing coverage is
probably being progressively extended, and that it might be worth
revisiting this new coverage map regularly (simply by panning over it).

Best wishes, and thanks Ant for this great tool!

Jean-Guilhem


[1]
http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=23.64163686689797&lon=90.45184066307274&zoom=7
[2]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Bangladesh#Bing_hires_imagery


Le 07/02/2011 15:41, ant a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I have noticed mappers make various attempts to map coverage of Bing
> high resolution imagery. Some drawed areas around the imagery and
> stuffed them into relations, others created xml files etc. etc. (see
> the wiki page [1])
> I thought that a world coverage map wasn't feasible with those
> methods, so I took Martijn van Exel's Bing analyzer and tweaked in a
> way that it creates a simple red/green map of hires coverage
> (green=hires available, red=hires not available).
> You will see that only a few spots have been rendered so far, but that
> is due to the way it works: You must zoom in to a hires zoom level in
> order to trigger the rendering. Try it out:
> http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/
>
> cheers
> ant
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Coverage
>
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