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

[maning sambale]

re-running with bing only outlines

168648 / 300000 = 56%

One outline polygon is a multipolygon which QGIS doesn't recognize so
the hole here [0] is included.

[0] http://tools.openstreetmap.org.ph/imagery_coverage/#6.445038,125.6145,13

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:40 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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