[OSM-talk] Bing coverage

[ant]

Hi Toby,

On 07.02.2011 16:21, Toby Murray wrote:
> What is your definition of "hires"? Zooming in on my city shows green
> where I would consider the imagery to be decent but nothing
> spectacular. (I think it is mostly just USGS ~1m imagery reused by
> Bing)

the definition of "hires" used in this application is "imagery is 
available at zoom level 14 or more". If you compare coverage areas 
linked to on the wiki page, you'll see that almost all of them 
correspond to that definition.

I'm aware that there might be levels of even greater detail, but that 
isn't implemented...

cheers
ant

>
> Nice bit of code though.
>
> Toby
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:41 AM, ant<antofosm at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have noticed mappers make various attempts to map coverage of Bing high
>> resolution imagery. Some drawed areas around the imagery and stuffed them
>> into relations, others created xml files etc. etc. (see the wiki page [1])
>> I thought that a world coverage map wasn't feasible with those methods, so I
>> took Martijn van Exel's Bing analyzer and tweaked in a way that it creates a
>> simple red/green map of hires coverage (green=hires available, red=hires not
>> available).
>> You will see that only a few spots have been rendered so far, but that is
>> due to the way it works: You must zoom in to a hires zoom level in order to
>> trigger the rendering. Try it out:
>> http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/
>>
>> cheers
>> ant
>>
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Coverage
>>
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