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

[maning sambale]

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
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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