[Talk-gb-westmidlands] BING imagery

[Peter Page]

Matt, Andy & Rob,

We have had the new Bing Maps covering most of Coventry and much of the 
surrounding countryside for about 6 months now, and spreading fast.  Like 
your area, it is not at the highest zoom.

I am now always using the new version for alignment, which as well as being 
up to date is always aligned as good & often much better that the old 
versions.  All results based on the new maps that  I have tested for 
accuracy are now for practical purposes in line with the latest Google Earth 
maps, and would appear to be the same as found on the ground.

The only real use I make of the highest zoom level is to trace buildings 
more accurately and easier for shape, then to move them to line up with the 
latest version for better accuracy.  Occasionally I also use the highest 
zoom level to see what an area was like some years back!

Questions:

1.  Should everyone be encouraged to adopt my methodology?

2.  When will we get the new maps at highest zoom level?

PeterP

-----Original Message----- 
From: Matt Williams
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:10 PM
To: Andy Robinson
Cc: talk-gb-westmidlands
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] BING imagery

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