[OSM-talk] Ultra-high-res Bing imagery?

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Wed Dec 29 15:23:41 GMT 2010


Coverage in Tampa is no better than Yahoo, and much worse than the
USGS high res ortho.

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
> I just checked the MS campus in Redmond, WA - there's nothing beyond
> 21 there either it seems.
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> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Alan Mintz
> <Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> In some larger urban areas of the US (SFO, LA, etc.), we have Bing imagery
>> at zoom 21 (~0.05-0.06 m/pel). The Bing spec allows for one more level (zoom
>> 22), but a search in some of the obvious places has not turned up any such
>> imagery. I checked downtown LA, parts of SFO, Bellevue/Redmond WA, Mountain
>> View CA (Google competitive purposes), and Washington DC (only zoom 20,
>> maybe for security). Has anyone seen zoom 22 imagery anywhere?
>>
>> In recent JOSM, you can display the zoom level of the tiles with
>> right_click->"Show Tile Info" (with Auto Load and Auto Zoom set). Zoom all
>> the way in until you get white imagery tiles, then back out slowly until
>> they go away, then show tile info to see what the max zoom level is.
>>
>> --
>> Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>
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