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

[Ishtiaque Ahmed]

Thanks Jean-Guilhem. This is a very good news for us, the BD mappers. We
will try make the best utilization of these imageries provided by Bing.

Thanks,
Ishtiaque

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:23 AM, nicolas chavent
<nicolas.chavent at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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