[OSM-talk-be] Difference between OSM and BING background

[Gerard Vanderveken]

This seems to be solved by the recent Bing update.
Regards,
Gerard.

Gerard Vanderveken wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The difference shows in PotLatch 2.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.176782&lon=4.445492&zoom=18&layers=M
> In Potlatch the alignment with Yahoo is still correct.
> For other areas (Loonbeek) the alignment witth Bing is still correct.
> Probably Bing updated its images for some part of the Antwerp area and 
> it has some alignment problems.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2&lat=51.177744&lon=4.436042&zoom=18&node=1206610666
> The church is duplicated at the right, but due to the advanced 
> stitching, the tile borders are hard to see, even with some streets 
> cutted off.
> The misalignment shows on all zoom levels.
> I assume this will be corrected in a few days.
> The JOSM editor has some functions to align the background, but I 
> don't recommend it to go into that.
>
> Regards,
> Gerard.
>
> Dirk Roels (Hotmail) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that there is a HUGE difference in position of streets 
>> (seem shifted over quite a distance), etc in the Mortsel area (take a 
>> look at Deurnestraat & Guide Gezellelaan area) when the map is 
>> enlarged (closer look). Is this normal behaviour? if so... is it a 
>> problem? if so... does the map have to be aligned to the 
>> BING-background and to what degree can the BING-background be 
>> trusted? or is it something that should be/needs to be corrected?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dirk
>>
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