[Talk-GB] Bing imagery in London

[David Fisher]

Brilliant, thanks for the info and links.
So it looks as if they are slowly updating the whole lot -- shame they felt
it necessary to drop the old before the new was ready though.  Going by the
yellow areas ("current release") in your link [1], it looks like much of
the home counties now have the new imagery, whilst London itself does
not... ah well, just have to be patient I guess.
Thanks again,
David.



On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Andy Robinson <ajrlists at gmail.com> wrote:

> BING have been updating their imagery [1] and the latest update for London
> (June 2012) is from Oct 2011 [2] which I guess means that the previous
> imagery has been dropped, even though it was better for our purposes.****
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> [1]
> http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=51.522276995783905~0.6418725813313131&lvl=8&dir=0&sty=h&app=50493~myappname~worldtour~p_rid~c86e326e-c476-44a7-9afb-2d199eecd2ed~p_c~0~p_i~0&FORM=LMLTCC
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> [2] http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bing/****
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> *From:* David Fisher [mailto:djfisher81 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 22 June 2012 11:09
> *To:* Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
> *Subject:* [Talk-GB] Bing imagery in London****
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> 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
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> 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.****
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> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Paul Williams <pjwderby at googlemail.com>
> wrote:****
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> 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?
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> Cheers
> Paul Williams
> (Paul The Archivist)
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