[Talk-GB] Bing imagery in London

[Derick Rethans]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, David Fisher wrote:

> 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.

So it wasn't my set-up! Yes, I've noticed this too. And I didn't know 
there was a talk-gb-london list!

cheers,
Derick

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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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> >
> 

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