[OSM-talk] Bing coverage relations, in particular 1298962

[Claudius]

Am 27.04.2012 03:28, SomeoneElse:
> I noticed this while looking at the map here:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.001059&lon=34.825519&zoom=18&layers=M
>
> The "Hires coverage of Bing imagery in the Near East" label is from the
> name on this relation:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1298962
>
> Regardless of the "perhaps the map shouldn't render unknown things just
> because of name=blah" issue, I'd argue that metadata such as this really
> doesn't belong in OSM. I've messaged the three previous editors of this
> relation and two haven't objected to it's removal (the other one hasn't
> replied). Can anyone put forward a good reason why it should be kept?

I can't see a good reason given there is a website such as 
http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/
that shows you Bing worldwide highres coverage.

Claudius