[talk-ph] 60% of the country is covered by Bing imagery

Eugene Alvin Villar seav80 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 14:58:14 BST 2012


It seems you included all the other non-Bing imagery. So the 60% is
for all available mid to high resolution imagery. :)

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:25 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear everyone,
>
> We often wondered how much of the Philippines is covered by Bing's
> hires imagery.  Using the the data from out Imagery coverage map [0],
> I clipped the imagery outline polygon to the coastline data in OSM [1]
> and I got the value 180,466 km^2.  We have roughly 300,000 km^2 of
> land. So,
>
> 180466 / 300000 = 60%
>
> [0] http://tools.openstreetmap.org.ph/imagery_coverage/
> [1] http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8188/8115782445_b1651be93c_b.jpg
> --
> cheers,
> maning



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