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

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/5/17 Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com>:
> 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
>>
>
>
> Pecs ih Hungay is in high-res:
> http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=s&lat=46.074824&lon=18.226571&zoom=17
>
>
> Kaposvar;
> http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=s&lat=46.36273&lon=17.796989&zoom=15
>
> I didn't all towns in Hungary but Pecs is a bit bigger that Osijek,
> and Kaposvar is much smaller that Osijek in Croatia.
>
> Do Hungarians have some special treatment? ;)
>
> Any special reason why Yahoo would pay for to get areal photography
> for small towns and villages in Hungary and not for other countries?

They have a delicious Gulasch :)

Thanks for updating the wiki