[OSM-talk-be] Bingify Belgium

[Jo]

I'm working around Bekkevoort, Bierbeek and Leuven. I was almost considering
to buy a balloon or a kite, or make a ride on a balloon to make my own
aerial imagery. Some features are next to impossible to map by surveying.
(forests, rivers, lakes, buildings, landuse). So I'm really grateful with
Bing's decision to let us use their imagery.

I noticed that around Leuven/Diest all the imagery is 3 years old. Of course
some things have changed in the mean time, but mostly it's very useable and
certainly better than nothing at all.

I try to make landuses as big as possible and I do connect it to the
highways. It gives the best result when exporting to PDF and printing them,
especially at high zoom levels. When working on a region I first trace the
smaller features like buildings, orchards, forests, then
residential/commercial landuse, then farmland. in between.

The quality of the map is increasing tremendously, hopefully the database
won't get overloaded...

Jo

2010/12/23 Jens Geiregat <jens.geiregat at gmail.com>

> I'm bingifying Tielt. Fixed roads, drew some important buildings,
> added shops etc. Still WIP.
>
>
> Jens
>
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Renaud MICHEL <r.h.michel+osm at gmail.com<r.h.michel%2Bosm at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > On jeudi 23 décembre 2010 at 16:21, Kenny Moens wrote :
> >> Also some parts to watch out for, which I already experienced: don't try
> >> to blindly trust bing data, the data isn't perfectly current. For
> >> example in my town of Houtvenne there is a new street (at least 1 year
> >> old), which is not visible on Bing yet, but which I mapped earlier on by
> >> means of GPX tracks.
> >
> > Yes, I can point you to a few places in Liege where bing is outdated,
> mainly
> > new roundabouts (we never get enough of those) :-)
> >
> > --
> > Renaud Michel
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