[Talk-GB] Bing imagery

[Will Phillips]

I'm still experiencing this. I've been looking at lots of different 
locations and can't access imagery above zoom 19 for anywhere I've 
checked. I've also been checking using different computers, but I'm 
basically seeing the same thing in all cases. The only change I've 
noticed is that I can now no longer see the zoom 20 tiles on the Bing 
website either. They have disappeared from there in the last five days.

The following page is useful for quickly checking which zoom levels are 
available: http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bing/
It's best to zoom in until no more imagery is available, because for me 
the overlay tiles at the lower zoom levels are sometimes inaccurate, 
presumably because they have been cached.

Regards,
Will

On 08/03/2014 15:39, jonathan wrote:
> Any updates on this, I'm still experiencing it all over Redditch and 
> surrounds?
>
> Jonathan
>
> http://bigfatfrog67.me
> On 04/03/2014 22:26, Andy Robinson wrote:
>>
>> I think we need to be careful when comparing what might be visible 
>> via the bing map website and what's available to our editing software 
>> platforms via the bing API. We are only meant to derive data from the 
>> latter as far as I recall. Clearly both platforms are not the same.
>>
>> As for differences that individual mappers see when using the same 
>> software, that needs more investigation as it doesn't seem logical 
>> unless it's simply a difference in caching which will presumably 
>> resolve itself fairly quickly.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> *From:*SomeoneElse [mailto:lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk]
>> *Sent:* 04 March 2014 18:36
>> *To:* Eric Grosso
>> *Cc:* talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery
>>
>> (taking these in a slightly different order)
>>
>> Eric Grosso wrote:
>>
>>
>> So from my point of view, the problem described initially by Will is 
>> still a current one.
>>
>>
>> Indeed - higher up this thread I mentioned a location in Mansfield 
>> which used to have > z18 imagery and now no longer does for me (in 
>> Potlatch 2).
>>
>>
>> In Wolverhampton, there are different problems which are combined, 
>> not only a problem with the imagery at a zoom level higher than 19.
>>
>> To take an example, using the Bing maps website 
>> (http://www.bing.com/maps/) and searching for Birch street,
>>
>>
>> Is what I see in "wolves_bing.com_aerial.png" what you're referring 
>> to here?  I got that by going to Bing.com, searching for Birch 
>> Street, Wolverhampton, zooming in in the southern end of Molineux and 
>> switching to "aerial".
>>
>> Interestingly, I don't see this problem in Potlatch 2 - there I get 
>> "wolves_p2_background.png" (or JOSM FWIW).
>>
>>
>> ..... If you switch to the aerial imagery without showing the labels, 
>> you can access a reasonable good imagery which is the one which is 
>> used until the zoom level 19.
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean here - I don't use Bing's website so I'm 
>> not familiar with it and don't obviously see a "show the labels" 
>> option.  I'm running Chrome on Windows 7 without Silverlight, if 
>> that's relevant.  It's certainly interesting that I see different 
>> "aerial" (not Birds Eye) imagery via bing.com than via the OSM editors.
>>
>> The point that I was actually trying to make (rather badly) was that 
>> west of there:
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2#map=18/52.72277/-2.12222 
>>
>>
>> imagery that was present in December but absent in January had 
>> reappeared as of this Monday, and therefore any "missing imagery" 
>> issues that there are currently may be temporary.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> Attachments:
>>
>> wolves_bing.com_aerial.png:
>> http://imgur.com/MOCd2xs
>>
>>
>> wolves_p2_background.png:
>> http://imgur.com/cdf4ej0
>>
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