[Talk-gb-westmidlands] BING imagery

Matt Williams matt at milliams.com
Wed Sep 18 11:10:17 UTC 2013


On 18 September 2013 11:41, Andy Robinson <ajrlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I note some new BING (satellite?) imagery in our area that wasn't there
> before I went away. It's not available at the highest zoom but is useful for
> tracing of new infrastructure built in the last few years. For Brum its
> mostly on the east of the city but plenty of other areas covered too. For me
> the interesting bit is north of Brum (Lichfield etc) which now has much
> better tracing data. Some of it is a bit dark making line definition through
> shadow difficult but it's a big improvement on what was there before and
> most importantly its much more up to date for these areas which were mostly
> still showing data from more than 5 years ago.

It looks like it's the Nokia imagery as a result of their new
alliance. It's certainly more up to date than the Bing release we had
last year. I haven't checked alignment yet but hopefully it's ok.

Matt



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