[Talk-GB] Bing imagery in London

[David Fisher]

Hi,
Thought I would flag this up with the Talk-GB list as well, since London
seems to be very quiet.
Has anyone else noticed Bing's imagery at highest zoom levels (<10m ish)
has disappeared recently?  And does anyone know why, or if it will be
returning?  It's a big setback for tracing buildings and distinguishing
close detail in dense urban areas where GPS can be very poor.
Thanks,
David.



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From: David Fisher <djfisher81 at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-london] Bing imagery in London
To: talk-gb-london at openstreetmap.org


Glad it's not just me!  I noticed this as well, seems to have happened 3 or
4 days ago (hard to tell exactly because the areas I've been working on
most recently have tiles cached).  It is a bit of a setback.



On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Paul Williams <pjwderby at googlemail.com>wrote:

> The quality of Bing imagery in a very large part of London (it appears
> this includes all of Central London) seems to have suddenly dropped.
> The highest resolution images have gone leaving images which are at a
> lesser resolution, are darker and appear to be affected more greatly
> by shadows - making it more difficult to map buildings etc accurately.
> I've checked this in JOSM, Potlatch and on the Bing maps website
> itself, both yesterday and this morning. Does anyone know if this is
> just a temporary problem (perhaps while they're updating the images or
> something like that) or not?
>
> Cheers
> Paul Williams
> (Paul The Archivist)
>
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