[OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

[Jochen Topf]

I looked at it again, and its not OSM data. It is NAVTEQ data. Its much better
than when I last looked at NAVTEQ data so I was confused. :-) But on closer
inspection I can see that the OSM data is still better and more current.

FF 3.6.17 on Linux, no Silverlight.

Jochen

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 05:07:31PM +1000, Nick Hocking wrote:
> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:07:31 +1000
> From: Nick Hocking <nick.hocking at gmail.com>
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing
> 
> Jochen,
> 
> I see attribution on my browser (bottom left corner).  Rendering is, I think
> standard mapnik, looks ok to me.
> 
> Andrew E, did you try my link and zoom over to Korea. I think you'll find
> all the OSM data there looking quite good.
> 
> Cheers
> Nick
> 
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 04:07:33PM +1000, Nick Hocking wrote:
> > >
> > http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/s=w&p=c/5872/style=Mapnik&lat=-35.206078&lon=149.103028&z=17&pid=50735
> > >
> > >
> > > Tose are the newly added roads. Ive been using Bing's mapnik facility for
> > a
> > > few months now - It's really good.
> >
> > That definitly looks like OSM data. But there is no attribution for OSM.
> > And
> > the rendering is really ugly. :-)
> >
> > Jochen
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> >
> >

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