[OSM-talk] Decline in accuracy of capture date metadata in Bing imagery

[Christoph Hormann]

On Thursday 27 July 2017, Mark Wagner wrote:
>
> It depends on what we're mapping.  An image with lots of green makes
> it easy to tell an abandoned field from one that's growing wheat, and
> the current Eastern Washington Bing imagery is quite good for judging
> the extent of seasonal wetlands and ponds.

But keep in mind that fields, wetlands and other larger areas can be 
observed quite well from medium resolution imagery which is available 
for different seasons and which also usually provide infrared 
recordings that allow better assessment of vegetation and wetlands at 
much lower costs than high resolution data.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/