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

[maning sambale]

Oops sorry. I guess the title is wrong.

Maning Sambale (mobile)
On Oct 23, 2012 9:58 PM, "Eugene Alvin Villar" <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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