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

[nicolas chavent]

Thanks Jean-Guilhem for this serach on imagery and thanks Ant for putting up
this tool

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <jgc at arkemie.com>wrote:

> 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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>
>


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