[OSM-talk] Bing coverage

[Peter Wendorff]

Hi ant.
The tool is great, but it would be even greater to have the specific 
zoom level availlable instead of "14 or more".
14 may be a threshold of useability in many areas, but for other 
purposes even 17, 18 or 19 may be the treshold (e.g. mapping of 
sidewalks, mapping of street lanterns ;) (compare the AeroWest imagery 
we have (had?) availlable for use in Dortmund).

regards
Peter

P.S.: if possible, an OSM map overlay would be great, too ;)

Am 07.02.2011 16:27, schrieb 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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