[Talk-gb-westmidlands] BING imagery

[Andy Robinson]

Folks,
BING is currently updating their imagery, which in many areas of the UK was
a lot poorer than we have been using say in Birmingham. In London the new
imagery has resulted in a loss of quality for building tracing etc, and we
may find the same occurs with Birmingham. Thus it's probably a good idea to
trace in as many areas that have not been done yet as soon as possible. I
know I have plenty still to do close to me!
Not clear when new imagery will come on stream but the original announcement
was that the new Global Ortho coverage of North America and Western Europe
would be completed by June 2012 though considering they have just published
a June set I'm guessing we may have a month or two grace time.

Of course on the upside, those areas beyond the high resolution imagery we
currently have should be much easier to trace (and far more up to date) once
the updates are complete.

Cheers
Andy