[OSM-talk] OT - Unusual Bing imagery

[Alan Mintz]

At 2012-07-23 16:02, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>On 24 July 2012 00:52, Hendrik Oesterlin <hendrikmail2002 at yahoo.de> wrote:
> >> http://greenvilleopenmap.info/Airplane.jpg

Nice catch, Mike N. Finding a plane "in flagrante" used to be quite an 
achievement in the KHBBS days :)


> > The Bing imagerie could be satellite imagerie, not necessarily air
> > plane imagerie.
>
>The area in the screenshot seems to have a higher resolution than
>satellites can achieve.

Is this documented somewhere? Assuming from the look and ratio of 
measurements of the jet that it is a B737, the pic is at z20 (~12cm/pel @ 
middle lats). I was under the impression that all of the Bing/Yahoo/Google 
imagery was still satellite-based, down to z21 (6cm/pel). I know Google has 
spots of "UHR" imagery at z22, but it seems they were still referred to as 
satellite. I've seen individual county websites with very nice imagery 
described as "flyover", as though coming from airplane/helicopter, 
apparently on a contract basis.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>