[OSM-talk-be] Bingify Belgium

[Gerard Vanderveken]

Hi all,

I'm mostly adding new paths and tracks around Huldenberg with JOSM, 
using Bing (and previously Yahoo) to correct ways and adding landmark 
buildings in connection of the new material.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.7876&lon=4.5993&zoom=13&layers=M

Gerard.

Jo wrote:

> 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
>
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