[talk-ph] Microsoft is letting OpenStreetMap trace from their aerial imagery!!!

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

Anthony has discovered another Bing satellite image and this one
covers Sta. Praxedes and Claveria in Cagayan:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/6582705

The location is a pretty odd place to have available satellite imagery
being remote and having no city nearby, but Claveria has an
interesting legend <http://www.vistapinas.com/article/apo-lakay-lakay>
so it's good that people from this part of Cagayan can now put their
town on the map. :-)

I guess we should do more checking to see if Bing has more imagery of
the Philippines. Who knows, maybe your hometown is covered!

BTW, Bing has an image of Taal Volcano's main island:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/87284794


On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:23 AM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Once this is released, maybe a skillshare session (with beer)?
>
> Potlatch2 has the code ready to use bing imagery (JOSM and Merkator
> will surely follow).  Be patient the announcement was barely 24 hours.
> :)
>
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Ed Garcia <eppgarcia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Great!  ah, eh paano gamitin ito?  does the imagery appear in JOSM (WMS?) or
>> on Potlatch?  Turuan mo kami please.
>>
>> thanks,
>> ed
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:03 AM, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yay!  Cebu here we come!
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Here'e an announcement from the Bing Maps Blog:
>>> >
>>> > http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2010/11/23/bing-engages-open-maps-community.aspx
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >> Read it from the blog of Steve Coast, who have joined Microsoft's Bing
>>> >> Maps division:
>>> >> http://blog.stevecoast.com/im-working-at-microsoft-and-were-donating-ima
>>> >>
>>> >> Relevant quote: "Microsoft is donating access to it's global
>>> >> orthorectified aerial imagery to help OpenStreetMappers make the map
>>> >> even better than it already is."
>>> >>
>>> >> Microsoft has vastly more and newer satellite imagery than Yahoo! has.
>>> >> This will certainly drastically increase the data in OSMPH.
>>> >>
>>> >> :-D
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com
>>> >
>>> > _______________________________________________
>>> > talk-ph mailing list
>>> > talk-ph at openstreetmap.org
>>> > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> cheers,
>>> maning
>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>> "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden
>>> wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/
>>> blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/
>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> talk-ph mailing list
>>> talk-ph at openstreetmap.org
>>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> website administrator:
>> - www.waypoints.ph
>> - reeflife.eppgarcia.com
>>
>> PADI Divemaster #491048
>>
>
>
>
> --
> cheers,
> maning
> ------------------------------------------------------
> "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden
> wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/
> blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> talk-ph mailing list
> talk-ph at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
>



-- 
http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com