[OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing.

Andrew Errington a.errington at lancaster.ac.uk
Mon Jun 13 06:59:26 BST 2011


On Mon, June 13, 2011 14:45, Nick Hocking wrote:
> I just added some more new roads to the Canberra area. They were rendered
> in Bing maps within 10 seconds of uploading to OSM!!!
>
>
> Now that's instant gratification.  Also bing maps are the slippiest
> around by a healthy margin. I can be zoomed in, in Canberra but then, for
> instance, zoom ou,t zip on over to the US and zoom in on a favourite
> Casino in Vegas
> all in about 5 seconds. _______________________________________________
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Bing maps are not amazing in Korea.  They still use the (very) sparse and
(very) old road network that Yahoo! has.  It's riddled with errors, and
nothing I put into OSM appears in Bing.

Here's a comparison of OSM and Yahoo!  If you find the same area in Bing
(can't figure out how to bookmark the map in Bing) then you will see the
maps are awful (and the same as Yahoo!).

<http://sautter.com/map/?zoom=13&lat=35.6884&lon=127.91217&layers=00000B0TFFFFFFFF>

Andrew






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