[OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

[Mike Dupont]

I have seen a similar error in google sat for the area of brod, in
kosovo. Bing is not even worth looking at for kosovo....

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Jaak Laineste <jaak.laineste at gmail.com> wrote:
>  It is good news that Bing aerials are available. The bad news is that
> Bing has made exactly the same mistake as Google, who has managed to
> misplace aerials in some areas in the beginning of September 2009.
> They are shifted about 20-25 meters, which makes them quite unusable
> for tracing.anything more than big roads.
>
> Maybe they use same flawed source for aerials?
>
> Affected area is Estonia, for example, and also some surrounding
> regions. It is easily seen even in Google and Bing own map services -
> when you switch to hybrid view. I put my quick analysis with examples
> to http://www.maakaart.ee/index.php/summary-in-english/google-and-bing-maps-errors
>
>
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> Jaak Laineste
>
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