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

[maning sambale]

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
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> 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
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>> 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
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