[OSM-talk] Yahoo has very bad resolution images of Croatia, why?

[Valent Turkovic]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:19 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/5/16 Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com>:
>> I'm living in Osijek in eastern part of Croatia, a town with
>> approximately 100,000 people. And if you look Osijek on Yahoo
>> satellite view you will see it really bad low resolution:
>> http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=s&lat=45.551444&lon=18.69127&zoom=14
>>
>> I found only two towns in Croatia that have a high resolution images;
>> Zagreb (capital of Croatia) and Rijeka.
>>
>> For comparison I looked at Hungary and similar sized towns to Osijek I
>> was surprised that they all have high resolution images, and not only
>> towns but also almost all villages I looked at were in high
>> resolution.
>
> According to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery/Coverage
> only Budapest is covered with high resolution pictures in .hu, the
> page might need updating (you might want to add Rijeka also), but
> generally only small villages that are close to a big, or for other
> reasons important, city are available in high resolution.
>
> Cheers
>

I updated Croatian and Hungarian coverage wiki pages.

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