[talk-ph] General strategy to using bing imagery in areas with no active OSMer (was Re: Microsoft Bing Maps Imagerty [sic] Terms of Use)

Totor totor_osm at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 15 05:21:55 GMT 2010


Hi, 

This is great !

I checked Negros, Cebu and Bohol islands.
No high resolution coverage, except for Cebu city...

Cheers.

Totor

--- On Tue, 12/14/10, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [talk-ph] General strategy to using bing imagery in areas with no active OSMer (was Re: Microsoft Bing Maps Imagerty [sic] Terms of Use)
> To: "maning sambale" <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> Cc: "osm-ph" <talk-ph at openstreetmap.org>
> Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 4:46 PM
> Martijn has updated his tool for
> determining the date of the Bing
> imagery. Now you can see how many more zoom levels are
> there. I think
> this may make it easier to spot more Bing imagery in the
> Philippines.
> 
> For example here is Puerto Galera:
> http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bing/?lat=13.495687421588386&lon=120.9321205854468&z=12
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:08 AM, maning sambale
> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I updated the wiki for the date of imagery using the
> site in this blog:
> > http://oegeo.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/bing-aerial-photos-for-openstreetmap-great-but-are-they-recent/
> >
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines/High-resolution_imagery#Bing_Imagery
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Anthony G. Balico
> > <anthony.balico at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> You're welcome Noli, happy to help.
> >>
> >> Hurry with the experiments and there's a looot of
> things to do :)
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 23:24 +1100, Noli Sicad
> wrote:
> >>> Hi Anthony,
> >>>
> >>> Now I got it.
> >>>
> >>> I will do experimental editing and tracing.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks a lot.
> >>>
> >>> Regards, Noli
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 12/4/10, Anthony G. Balico <anthony.balico at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> > Hi Noli,
> >>> >
> >>> > You may want to fire up a bit your josm
> using this little tweak
> >>> >     > java -Xmx512m -jar
> josm-latest.jar
> >>> >
> >>> > I installed the "imagery" plugin instead,
> and its working great you may
> >>> > give it a try (a josm restart is
> necessary after installing a new
> >>> > plugin).
> >>> >
> >>> > After that, just simply download map from
> osm (3rd from left on the menu
> >>> > icons), box your area of interest (not so
> large otherwise you get an
> >>> > error).  By default it will download
> only osm data but i suggest you
> >>> > tick the "raw gps data" to pull the gps
> data from the db as well.  After
> >>> > both were download, click "Imagery" from
> the main menu then choose Bing
> >>> > Sat.  Now you're good to go :)
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Anthony
> >>> >
> >>> > On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 22:42 +1100, Noli
> Sicad wrote:
> >>> >> How do I start traces Bing Maps
> Imagerty (e.g. Iligan) using JOSM.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Steps
> >>> >> 1. Download the latest
> josm-latest.jar
> >>> >> 2. In terminal (linux)
> >>> >>     > java -jar josm-latest.jar
> >>> >> 3. Install wmsplugin (for Bing Maps)
> >>> >>
> >>> >> What is next to do?
> >>> >>
> >>> >> 4.File -> New New Layer?
> >>> >> 5.
> >>> >> 6.
> >>> >> 7,
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Any short tutorial?
> >>> >>
> >>> >> I watched the JOSM videos by Steve
> Coast. It seems not applicable to
> >>> >> tracing maps.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Thanks.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Noli
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> On 12/1/10, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> >> > I'm posting this to generate
> insights on how we should maximize and
> >>> >> > accelerate data contributions in
> bing covered areas.
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > At the moment there are a lot of
> bing imagery with minimal active
> >>> >> > ph-osmer (perhaps main reason is
> the lack of imagery).  I am
> >>> >> > predicting that this will change
> very soon when other people start to
> >>> >> > see that their area of interest
> has his-res imagery available.  As a
> >>> >> > community, how do we approach
> the info dissemination so that people
> >>> >> > become aware that there is
> imagery already in "X" town?
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > Some suggestions:
> >>> >> > 1. Lets create a coverage list
> and add them here:
> >>> >> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/hires_imagery
> >>> >> > . Do we have complete coverage
> sweep:
> >>> >> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Coverage#Philippines
> ?
> >>> >>
> >>> >> > 2. Check nearby editors covered
> by bing and remind them that imagery
> >>> >> > is now available (via OSM
> messaging).
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > 3.  "Seed" the area by tracing
> roads (temporarily tagged as
> >>> >> > highway=road).
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > Adding stub roads can give an
> impression of completeness.  Hence, it
> >>> >> > can be counter-productive.
>  Personally, I have reservations on point 3
> >>> >> > (but lack the patience to wait
> for a passionate contributor in "X"
> >>> >> > town) :) .
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > On the long term, the main
> strategy would be to encourage local osm
> >>> >> > groups within these imagery
> covered areas.
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > Any ideas?
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
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> >
> >
> >
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> > maning
> >
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