Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage dropped dramatically in Taiwan

2015-04-11 Thread maning sambale
Same case reported in the Philippines.

cheers,

Maning Sambale (mobile)
On Apr 11, 2015 12:20 AM, Hsiao-Ting Yu [:littlebtc] sst.dre...@gmail.com
wrote:

 For mappers in Taiwan, currently the Bing imagery is the only way to draw
 details in Taiwan, since only Bing has good zoom 18+ coverage in Taiwan.

 However since the imagery updated this week the coverage dramatically
 dropped. Though some region had been updated,  a lot of areas, like Taipei,
 Miaoli, and Kaohsiung, all zoom 14+ images were disappeared. It is
 frustrating.

 This issue had been lasted for several days, and we had reported the
 imagery lost in the Bing maps report form. Is there any other ways we can
 report and get this fixed?

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

2012-04-28 Thread Claudius

Am 27.04.2012 03:28, SomeoneElse:

I noticed this while looking at the map here:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.001059lon=34.825519zoom=18layers=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.

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

2012-04-27 Thread Stephan Knauss

On 27.04.2012 03:28, SomeoneElse wrote:

The Hires coverage of Bing imagery in the Near East label is from the
name on this relation:
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?


Not exactly about this relation but in the country I map we have a 
similar relation.


The thing is that unlike in many western countries the coverage of 
aerial imagery is limited. So having a way to easily share the 
boundaries was needed.


The boundary is not on the ground like most boundaries. Actually I have 
never seen a boundary. I saw constructions like fences or walls at 
places people say there is a boundary, but never the boundary itself.



So why to keep them?

You can do fancy queries with boundaries. Have you ever tried to make a 
statistic on the number of unnamed highway=residential of an area having 
imagery comparing to a similar sized area (in number of highways or 
area) having no aerials?


Or you could visually compare against other map sources and find an 
unmapped place in case you are into armchair mapping.


Have a look here.
http://compare.osm-tools.org/
It hides streets from a google map if there is a road/water in a similar 
location in OSM. If you see a lake/road on the map than it's not in OSM. 
With the edit button on the left you can open the are in JOSM (button is 
disabled if JOSM is not running).


It can also display the coverage on a map. For this a local cached copy 
is used. Due to load reasons I recommend not to use osm.org for browsing 
such relations.



So what to do with such relations?

In case of local relations please leave the decision to the local 
community. If they consider it useful then it is.

Don't try to decide what's best for people on the other side of the globe.
A boundary relation like this does no harm at all, so just leave it 
there and ignore it if you don't like it.


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

2012-04-27 Thread Bráulio
Also, one could just remove type=boundary (since it isn't really a
boundary) and name=something from the relation/ways so they don't show up
on any renderer. You could put a description=* tag instead or some
nonstandard one.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 03:58, Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.dewrote:

 On 27.04.2012 03:28, SomeoneElse wrote:

 The Hires coverage of Bing imagery in the Near East label is from the
 name on this relation:
 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?


 Not exactly about this relation but in the country I map we have a similar
 relation.

 The thing is that unlike in many western countries the coverage of aerial
 imagery is limited. So having a way to easily share the boundaries was
 needed.

 The boundary is not on the ground like most boundaries. Actually I have
 never seen a boundary. I saw constructions like fences or walls at places
 people say there is a boundary, but never the boundary itself.


 So why to keep them?

 You can do fancy queries with boundaries. Have you ever tried to make a
 statistic on the number of unnamed highway=residential of an area having
 imagery comparing to a similar sized area (in number of highways or area)
 having no aerials?

 Or you could visually compare against other map sources and find an
 unmapped place in case you are into armchair mapping.

 Have a look here.
 http://compare.osm-tools.org/
 It hides streets from a google map if there is a road/water in a similar
 location in OSM. If you see a lake/road on the map than it's not in OSM.
 With the edit button on the left you can open the are in JOSM (button is
 disabled if JOSM is not running).

 It can also display the coverage on a map. For this a local cached copy is
 used. Due to load reasons I recommend not to use osm.org for browsing
 such relations.


 So what to do with such relations?

 In case of local relations please leave the decision to the local
 community. If they consider it useful then it is.
 Don't try to decide what's best for people on the other side of the globe.
 A boundary relation like this does no harm at all, so just leave it there
 and ignore it if you don't like it.

 Stephan



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

2012-04-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Someoneelse wrote:
 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.

Agreed.

OSM is not the world's sole repository of co-ordinate data, and nor should
it be. This would be much better stored in an externally hosted .osm file or
shapefile, which can be loaded into the editor/tool of your choice, than in
the main database.

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

2012-04-27 Thread Werner Hoch
Hi there,

Am Freitag, den 27.04.2012, 02:28 +0100 schrieb SomeoneElse:
 I noticed this while looking at the map here:
 
 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.001059lon=34.825519zoom=18layers=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?

There will be always things in the database that is not on the ground.

You'll find many things tagged with note=experimental, please don't
delete this object,... Or note=penholder relation, ..., note=mapping
coordination, 

Unfortunatly a renderer or any other bot cannot read this note messages.

Some time ago I've created a draft about such objects:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/osm

This would help to differ between real objects and artifitial objects
easily.
Even if nobody likes that artifitial objects it would be easy to ignore
them.

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

2012-04-26 Thread SomeoneElse

I noticed this while looking at the map here:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.001059lon=34.825519zoom=18layers=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?


There are, of course, a number of other relations on this page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Coverage

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

2012-04-26 Thread Paul Norman
If I saw one of these locally I would verify that it corresponds to nothing
on the ground and then delete it.

 -Original Message-
 From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk]
 Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:28 PM
 To: Open Street Map mailing list
 Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage relations, in particular 1298962
 
 I noticed this while looking at the map here:
 
 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.001059lon=34.825519zoom=18layers
 =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?
 
 There are, of course, a number of other relations on this page:
 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Coverage
 
 Cheers,
 Andy
 
 
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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage relations, in particular 1298962

2012-04-26 Thread maning sambale
We used to do this for outlining hires imagery (as closed ways not
relations), but decided to remove them following the on the ground
principle.  Instead, we moved the data to a separate webmap [0].
Further coordination, listing and other imagery updates are added in
the wiki as well [1].

[0] http://forge.codedgraphic.com/osm/imagery_coverage/
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/hires_imagery

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
 If I saw one of these locally I would verify that it corresponds to nothing
 on the ground and then delete it.

 -Original Message-
 From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk]
 Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:28 PM
 To: Open Street Map mailing list
 Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage relations, in particular 1298962

 I noticed this while looking at the map here:

 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.001059lon=34.825519zoom=18layers
 =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?

 There are, of course, a number of other relations on this page:
 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Coverage

 Cheers,
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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-11 Thread Lennard
 I do agree that it is a lot of effort for information that Bing must
 already have. *Looks at SteveC* Wouldn't be too hard to dump imagery
 boundaries into a shapefile or something, would it? :)

Or feed it from the editors, as I suggested before. They're already doing
the hard work of fetching the tiles. The meta info they could collect at
the same time is free. Hey, how's that for crowd-sourcing?

And, while we're at it, we can have a bit of graffiti too:

http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=32.18260201828125lon=-47.760662707134124zoom=6

http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=61.51534917347587lon=19.306271732481257zoom=7

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-11 Thread ant

Replies to several statements in this thread.

On 10.02.2011 23:50, Lennard wrote:

On 10-2-2011 23:37, ant wrote:

On 10.02.2011 20:25, Lennard wrote:

@ant: Would it be possible to have the editors collect and report* on
the available zoom levels, as users download Bing tiles while editing?


That's a brilliant idea, but I'm not involved in how editors handle Bing
maps. So the question whether they can provide such data at all should
be directed at their developers.


Well, they will need to have a way to get the collected data back to
you. I'm assuming, as things go in OSM, that once you provide such a
mechanism, the editors would follow.



Fair point. That would require an API to be implemented (which I assume 
is a lot of work).
Also: How to authenticate the editors? That is, how to tell them apart 
from people willingly sending misinformation?


On 11.02.2011 03:19, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
 Most of the information has already been collected as some sort of
 relations which higher accuracy than the red/green tiles, I can't say
 for all planet, but at least in Europe.  Should be possible to import
 that into the bingimageanalyzer.

Sure is possible. But those areas aren't that accurate actually, because 
in general they've been derived from imagery borders. So you don't know 
what's inside those areas...


On 11.02.2011 08:18, Maarten Deen wrote:
 BTW: isn't there a possibility to make an offline renderer for this?
 This would speed the process up even more.

What do you mean by offline renderer? A script that renders tiles 
independently of the users' map browsing?


Anyway, conclusion to all development-related questions: Code is at 
https://github.com/antofosm/bingimageanalyzer


cheers
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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-11 Thread Renaud MICHEL
On vendredi 11 février 2011 at 02:43, Toby Murray wrote :
 On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
  At what zoom level to I have to be at to view an already zoomed in area
  to view dark blue (z20)?
  
  I'm trying, but still failing to see the benefit in this.
 
 If enough of an area has been populated, it shows at pretty low zoom
 levels. Hey look, Topeka has z20 imagery!
 
 http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=39.70429533168507
 4lon=-95.39738145713467zoom=8

Moving around a bit on that map, I found this
http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=31.61276546098359lon=-47.38712755088407zoom=6
looks like someone has a lot of time to waste...

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-10 Thread Toby Murray
I have come across a couple of seemingly immutable tiles that refuse
to re-render even though higher resolution imagery is available. For
example:

http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=39.19008048219242lon=-96.60511479564622zoom=14

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-10 Thread ant

Hi,

On 10.02.2011 20:25, Lennard wrote:

@ant: Would it be possible to have the editors collect and report* on
the available zoom levels, as users download Bing tiles while editing?


That's a brilliant idea, but I'm not involved in how editors handle Bing 
maps. So the question whether they can provide such data at all should 
be directed at their developers.


cheers
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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-10 Thread Lennard

On 10-2-2011 23:37, ant wrote:

On 10.02.2011 20:25, Lennard wrote:

@ant: Would it be possible to have the editors collect and report* on
the available zoom levels, as users download Bing tiles while editing?


That's a brilliant idea, but I'm not involved in how editors handle Bing
maps. So the question whether they can provide such data at all should
be directed at their developers.


Well, they will need to have a way to get the collected data back to 
you. I'm assuming, as things go in OSM, that once you provide such a 
mechanism, the editors would follow.


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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-10 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:37 PM, ant antof...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 10.02.2011 20:25, Lennard wrote:

 @ant: Would it be possible to have the editors collect and report* on
 the available zoom levels, as users download Bing tiles while editing?

 That's a brilliant idea, but I'm not involved in how editors handle Bing
 maps. So the question whether they can provide such data at all should be
 directed at their developers.

This thought occurred to me as well. I'm pretty sure JOSM could be
made to do this. It already detects which zoom levels are available
and overzooms the previous level if none is available at the current
one. I know P2 doesn't overzoom but it also seems to detect when no
imagery is available and just blanks out the background.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-10 Thread Dave F.

On 09/02/2011 11:53, ant wrote:

Hi Dave,

On 09.02.2011 12:26, Dave F. wrote:

Sorry, but I'm failing to see the point in this tool. Why would someone
need to get an idea about where hi-res is?

At 14 it gives inaccurate readings, at 14 you're to far in to *get an
idea*.

Hope you can explain it to me.


this map is a work in progress. First you must zoom in into an area 
you're interested in to see if there's hires imagery available.


See, this is a bit I don't understand. If you have to zoom in then you 
can see if it's hi-res from the Bing images!



Upon zooming out one by one, the colouring gets rendered again 
according to what you've found. After a while you'll have a big mosaic 
indicating coverage on a wide range.


For example - look at Australia. There only a few areas are coloured 
green, which means there is hires (zoom 14 and more) imagery. A mapper 
might be interested in such a map to discover places in Australia s/he 
hasn't traced yet.


1. How many people map areas they've never been to. If they are, is that 
a benefit to OSM regarding accuracy.


2. If they're interested in an area why can't they just zoom in to find 
out if it's hi-res.


Sorry, but I think your time would be better spent get out  mapping 
something.



What you do mean by inaccurate readings? I think the map is quite 
accurate.



http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=51.06122731915702lon=-2.3915486787965934zoom=9

The blank areas have hi-res imagery (caveat: I have checked every tile)

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-10 Thread Dave F.

On 10/02/2011 23:49, Dave F. wrote:


The blank areas have hi-res imagery (caveat: I have checked every tile)


I *haven't* checked


To follow on:

http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=51.420057188094106lon=-2.4574914579781226zoom=20

In order to see if an area is super high (z20)  I have to be actually 
zoomed in on that area to zoom level 20. Therefore I can tell if it is 
hi-res from the Bing imagery.


I'm really failing to see the purpose of this product.

Dave F.


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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-10 Thread Dermot McNally
On 11 February 2011 00:00, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:

 In order to see if an area is super high (z20)  I have to be actually
 zoomed in on that area to zoom level 20. Therefore I can tell if it is
 hi-res from the Bing imagery.

 I'm really failing to see the purpose of this product.

I think the theory is that if you have already done the hard work of
zooming in, the next guy won't have to because he'll see the coloured
tiles at that location. So it's quite a valid bit of crowd-sourcing,
if we accept that the end result is worth having. The end result being
that the whole world appears in _some_ colour, even at very low zoom.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-10 Thread Dave F.

On 11/02/2011 00:07, Dermot McNally wrote:

I think the theory is that if you have already done the hard work of
zooming in, the next guy won't have to because he'll see the coloured
tiles at that location.


if someone has to do that first to highlight the data that's already 
there, then I think it's even less worthy than I thought before.



So it's quite a valid bit of crowd-sourcing,
if we accept that the end result is worth having.

As I said that info is already available


The end result being
that the whole world appears in _some_ colour, even at very low zoom.


At what zoom level to I have to be at to view an already zoomed in area 
to view dark blue (z20)?


I'm trying, but still failing to see the benefit in this.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-10 Thread Dermot McNally
On 11 February 2011 00:27, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:

 At what zoom level to I have to be at to view an already zoomed in area to
 view dark blue (z20)?

You could be fairly zoomed out if there are enough adjacent z20 tiles
turned dark blue. But yes, it all needs a lot of eyes to be zooming
into a lot of tiles. Basically a group effort to cover the whole earth
down to a fine level of detail.

It'll never work...

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-10 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 11 February 2011 02:43, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote:
 At what zoom level to I have to be at to view an already zoomed in area to
 view dark blue (z20)?

 I'm trying, but still failing to see the benefit in this.

 If enough of an area has been populated, it shows at pretty low zoom
 levels. Hey look, Topeka has z20 imagery!

 http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=39.704295331685074lon=-95.39738145713467zoom=8

 I do agree that it is a lot of effort for information that Bing must
 already have. *Looks at SteveC* Wouldn't be too hard to dump imagery
 boundaries into a shapefile or something, would it? :)

Most of the information has already been collected as some sort of
relations which higher accuracy than the red/green tiles, I can't say
for all planet, but at least in Europe.  Should be possible to import
that into the bingimageanalyzer.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-10 Thread Maarten Deen

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:49:58 +, Dave F. wrote:

On 09/02/2011 11:53, ant wrote:



What you do mean by inaccurate readings? I think the map is quite 
accurate.



http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=51.06122731915702lon=-2.3915486787965934zoom=9

The blank areas have hi-res imagery (caveat: I have checked every 
tile)


Apart from checking every tile, it is only an assumption. A fair 
assumption, but still just an assumption. As long as you haven't checked 
all tiles it is entirely possible that there is an area of low-res 
imagery contained in that area.
Furthermore: you know nothing of the level of hi-res imagery. Is it 
high res imagery, very high, ultra high or super high?



BTW: isn't there a possibility to make an offline renderer for this? 
This would speed the process up even more.


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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-09 Thread Dave F.

On 08/02/2011 23:59, ant wrote:

On 09.02.2011 00:53, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:


I get your point, but the single aim of this tool is to help people 
*get an idea* about where high resolution imagery is available.


Sorry, but I'm failing to see the point in this tool. Why would someone 
need to get an idea about where hi-res is?


At 14 it gives inaccurate readings, at 14 you're to far in to *get an 
idea*.


Hope you can explain it to me.

Cheers
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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-09 Thread ant

Hi Dave,

On 09.02.2011 12:26, Dave F. wrote:

Sorry, but I'm failing to see the point in this tool. Why would someone
need to get an idea about where hi-res is?

At 14 it gives inaccurate readings, at 14 you're to far in to *get an
idea*.

Hope you can explain it to me.


this map is a work in progress. First you must zoom in into an area 
you're interested in to see if there's hires imagery available. Upon 
zooming out one by one, the colouring gets rendered again according to 
what you've found. After a while you'll have a big mosaic indicating 
coverage on a wide range.


For example - look at Australia. There only a few areas are coloured 
green, which means there is hires (zoom 14 and more) imagery. A mapper 
might be interested in such a map to discover places in Australia s/he 
hasn't traced yet.


Then look at the U.S., or Germany. These countries have full coverage. 
There you might want to know which cities have got imagery that 
surpasses in quality the normal hires you find throughout the country. 
And again, you want to see it in lower zoom levels to get an overview.


What you do mean by inaccurate readings? I think the map is quite 
accurate.




Cheers
Dave F.


cheers
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Re: [OSM-ja] Bing上に、カバーエリアを表示するツール(Was: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage)

2011-02-09 Thread Tomomichi Hayakawa
Tomです。

北方領土は、さすがに無いよな〜とか思ってたら。
あるじゃん!やるじゃん、Bing。
http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=43.98653044766lon=146.07809710931377zoom=9



2011年2月8日12:29 S.Higashi s_hig...@mua.biglobe.ne.jp:
 東です。

 # Gmailだと宛先が変わってもタイトルが変わらないとスレッドが続いてしまうので
 (英文メールに埋もれてしまうので)タイトルを変えさせて頂きました。

 これ便利ですね!
 色分けについていろんな意見が出ていますが、現在のところ
 地上の物体が認識できるズームレベル14を境に
 赤と緑で塗り分けているようです。

 2011/2/8, Tomomichi Hayakawa tom.hayak...@gmail.com:
 Tomです。

 Bing上に、カバーエリアを表示するツールのようです。(たぶん^^;;
 ズームしていくと、カーバー状況が色分けされていきます。一度、お試しください。

 http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=38.38333768390208lon=138.2929893374731zoom=6

 みんなで、見て行くと、一気にカバーエリアが色分けされていくんだと思われます。


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 Date: 2011/2/7
 Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage
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 Hi,

 I have noticed mappers make various attempts to map coverage of Bing
 high resolution imagery. Some drawed areas around the imagery and
 stuffed them into relations, others created xml files etc. etc. (see
 the wiki page [1])
 I thought that a world coverage map wasn't feasible with those
 methods, so I took Martijn van Exel's Bing analyzer and tweaked in a
 way that it creates a simple red/green map of hires coverage
 (green=hires available, red=hires not available).
 You will see that only a few spots have been rendered so far, but that
 is due to the way it works: You must zoom in to a hires zoom level in
 order to trigger the rendering. Try it out:
 http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/

 cheers
 ant


 [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Coverage

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[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-08 Thread maning sambale
Use this map to browse for hi-res bing imagery.  Once an area was
viewed at zoom 14 or higher the updated coverage overlay will be
visible even at lower zooms.

So far, I triggered several renders in Mindanao:
http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=10.192676169866743lon=122.16794058683548zoom=6

I also discovered updates in Zambo Basilan area:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=87288830

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Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:41 PM
Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage
To: t...@openstreetmap.org


Hi,

I have noticed mappers make various attempts to map coverage of Bing
high resolution imagery. Some drawed areas around the imagery and
stuffed them into relations, others created xml files etc. etc. (see
the wiki page [1])
I thought that a world coverage map wasn't feasible with those
methods, so I took Martijn van Exel's Bing analyzer and tweaked in a
way that it creates a simple red/green map of hires coverage
(green=hires available, red=hires not available).
You will see that only a few spots have been rendered so far, but that
is due to the way it works: You must zoom in to a hires zoom level in
order to trigger the rendering. Try it out:
http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/

cheers
ant


[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Coverage

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-08 Thread Toby Murray
This tool has helped me to spot a threat to life as we know it!
Behold, the zombies are upon us!

http://i.imgur.com/rmmQD.jpg

And apparently they are hanging out over Haiti. Did I just find
patient zero of the cholera outbreak?

I'm sure it will re-render shortly but here is the perma link:
http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=19.177697176843566lon=-71.12255841580205zoom=10

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[OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread ant

Hi all,

I've been thinking about extra colours for super hires imagery and been 
doing a little research. See the following list of some notable places 
sorted by their highest Bing zoom levels.


Hamburg 20
Vienna  20
London  20
Rome20
Paris   20
Tokyo   20
Singapore   20
Montreal20
New York City   20
Denver  20
Los Angeles 20
Kansas City 20
Mexico City 20
Port-au-Prince  20
Munich  19
Helsinki19
Madrid  19
Warsaw  19
Moscow  19
Istanbul19
Delhi   19
Tunis   19
Perth   19
Sydney  19
Amsterdam   19
Netherlands rural areas 19
Stockholm   19
Bogota  19
Santiago de Chile   19
Beijing 18
Cape Town   18
Rio de Janeiro  18
Berlin  17
Dublin  17
Damascus17
Cairo   17
Lagos   17
Germany rural areas 17
Kansas rural areas  17

It seems that all places that have hires imagery of z14 also have it up 
to z17 (of which z14-z16 are scaled versions, of course). So no need to 
introduce extra colours for anything below z18. Then the question is: 
How many colours make sense between z18 and z20 (the absolute maximum)?


I think one colour for each zoom level doesn't make sense, because the 
overall differences in image quality are too stark (compare for example 
NYC and Santiago de Chile at z19, respectively).


So what about:
14-17   high resolution
18-19   very high resolution
20  ultra high resolution
?

And... which colours? I would have liked a kind of red-yellow-green 
scale, but I'd rather keep the green now in order to avoid confusion 
(old green tiles vs. new green tiles and so on). So I propose a dark 
green for very hires and a blueish green for ultra hires -- see the 
screenshot.


In anticipation of your comments,

ant

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread Stephan Knauss

Hi ant,

On 08.02.2011 21:52, ant wrote:

14-17 high resolution
18-19 very high resolution
20 ultra high resolution


sounds fine, but I experience that some high resolution images look just 
like overzoomed lower resolution images.


For example compare these parking lots. Both claim to be zoom 19, at 
least your site shows them both as zoom 19. One in London, one in Chiang 
Mai.

I don't believe the Chiang Mai one is hi-res.

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6329/z19london.png
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/5817/z19chiangmai.png

Interpolation can also be done in JOSM. I would be interested in the 
real image resolution.
This might need more than just detecting the existing of tiles in 
specific zoom levels. Any idea on how to have users vote on the 
resolution experienced?


Stephan


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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread ant

On 08.02.2011 22:32, Stephan Knauss wrote:

sounds fine, but I experience that some high resolution images look just
like overzoomed lower resolution images.


That's true. I gave another example.


Interpolation can also be done in JOSM. I would be interested in the
real image resolution.
This might need more than just detecting the existing of tiles in
specific zoom levels. Any idea on how to have users vote on the
resolution experienced?


I doubt that the experienced resolution will be much more accurate... 
another possibility is to measure the sharpness of images 
algorithmically. Altogether, there's a lot of image processing 
applications I could think of related to aerial imagery (cloud 
detection, analysis of distinct photographs, automatic tracing...). 
That, however, is worth another application.


cheers
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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread Toby Murray
My only comment would be that the dark green kind of looks like you
just turned down the opacity of the regular green layer. But it still
gets the point across I suppose. The zoom levels seem reasonable to
me.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Don't forget that because of the Mercator projection we use, a level
20 tile at the equator (like Singapore) shows the same spatial
resolution as a level 19 tile at latitudes near 60 (N or S, like
Helsinki).

Helsinki at level 19:
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2cp=60.17150065552734~24.93957236409227lvl=19dir=0sty=a
Singapore at level 20:
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2cp=1.3051193488899742~103.83200242146012lvl=20dir=0sty=a

Note that the scale bar at the bottom of both views are practically the same.


On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:52 AM, ant antof...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi all,

 I've been thinking about extra colours for super hires imagery and been
 doing a little research. See the following list of some notable places
 sorted by their highest Bing zoom levels.

 Hamburg 20
 Vienna  20
 London  20
 Rome    20
 Paris   20
 Tokyo   20
 Singapore       20
 Montreal        20
 New York City   20
 Denver  20
 Los Angeles     20
 Kansas City     20
 Mexico City     20
 Port-au-Prince  20
 Munich  19
 Helsinki        19
 Madrid  19
 Warsaw  19
 Moscow  19
 Istanbul        19
 Delhi   19
 Tunis   19
 Perth   19
 Sydney  19
 Amsterdam       19
 Netherlands rural areas 19
 Stockholm       19
 Bogota  19
 Santiago de Chile       19
 Beijing 18
 Cape Town       18
 Rio de Janeiro  18
 Berlin  17
 Dublin  17
 Damascus        17
 Cairo   17
 Lagos   17
 Germany rural areas     17
 Kansas rural areas      17

 It seems that all places that have hires imagery of z14 also have it up to
 z17 (of which z14-z16 are scaled versions, of course). So no need to
 introduce extra colours for anything below z18. Then the question is: How
 many colours make sense between z18 and z20 (the absolute maximum)?

 I think one colour for each zoom level doesn't make sense, because the
 overall differences in image quality are too stark (compare for example NYC
 and Santiago de Chile at z19, respectively).

 So what about:
 14-17   high resolution
 18-19   very high resolution
 20              ultra high resolution
    ?

 And... which colours? I would have liked a kind of red-yellow-green scale,
 but I'd rather keep the green now in order to avoid confusion (old green
 tiles vs. new green tiles and so on). So I propose a dark green for very
 hires and a blueish green for ultra hires -- see the screenshot.

 In anticipation of your comments,

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread ant

On 09.02.2011 00:53, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:

Don't forget that because of the Mercator projection we use, a level
20 tile at the equator (like Singapore) shows the same spatial
resolution as a level 19 tile at latitudes near 60 (N or S, like
Helsinki).


...so someone make a Bing resolution map with 256 different levels...!

I get your point, but the single aim of this tool is to help people *get 
an idea* about where high resolution imagery is available.


cheers
ant




Helsinki at level 19:
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2cp=60.17150065552734~24.93957236409227lvl=19dir=0sty=a
Singapore at level 20:
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2cp=1.3051193488899742~103.83200242146012lvl=20dir=0sty=a

Note that the scale bar at the bottom of both views are practically the same.




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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread Jo
For me the tipping point is between 18 and 19. Over Leuven (Belgium)
it goes up to 19. 5 kilometers East of Leuven it's only 18 and the
difference is enormous. Then again, only a few months ago there was
nothing to work from.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage - more levels

2011-02-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:59 AM, ant antof...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 09.02.2011 00:53, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:

 Don't forget that because of the Mercator projection we use, a level
 20 tile at the equator (like Singapore) shows the same spatial
 resolution as a level 19 tile at latitudes near 60 (N or S, like
 Helsinki).

 ...so someone make a Bing resolution map with 256 different levels...!

 I get your point, but the single aim of this tool is to help people *get an
 idea* about where high resolution imagery is available.

My actual point is that there's probably no use agonizing how many
levels of coloring to consider. :-)

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[OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread ant

Hi,

I have noticed mappers make various attempts to map coverage of Bing 
high resolution imagery. Some drawed areas around the imagery and 
stuffed them into relations, others created xml files etc. etc. (see the 
wiki page [1])
I thought that a world coverage map wasn't feasible with those methods, 
so I took Martijn van Exel's Bing analyzer and tweaked in a way that it 
creates a simple red/green map of hires coverage (green=hires available, 
red=hires not available).
You will see that only a few spots have been rendered so far, but that 
is due to the way it works: You must zoom in to a hires zoom level in 
order to trigger the rendering. Try it out: 
http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/


cheers
ant


[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Coverage

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread Toby Murray
What is your definition of hires? Zooming in on my city shows green
where I would consider the imagery to be decent but nothing
spectacular. (I think it is mostly just USGS ~1m imagery reused by
Bing)

Nice bit of code though.

Toby


On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:41 AM, ant antof...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I have noticed mappers make various attempts to map coverage of Bing high
 resolution imagery. Some drawed areas around the imagery and stuffed them
 into relations, others created xml files etc. etc. (see the wiki page [1])
 I thought that a world coverage map wasn't feasible with those methods, so I
 took Martijn van Exel's Bing analyzer and tweaked in a way that it creates a
 simple red/green map of hires coverage (green=hires available, red=hires not
 available).
 You will see that only a few spots have been rendered so far, but that is
 due to the way it works: You must zoom in to a hires zoom level in order to
 trigger the rendering. Try it out:
 http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/

 cheers
 ant


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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread ant

Hi Toby,

On 07.02.2011 16:21, Toby Murray wrote:

What is your definition of hires? Zooming in on my city shows green
where I would consider the imagery to be decent but nothing
spectacular. (I think it is mostly just USGS ~1m imagery reused by
Bing)


the definition of hires used in this application is imagery is 
available at zoom level 14 or more. If you compare coverage areas 
linked to on the wiki page, you'll see that almost all of them 
correspond to that definition.


I'm aware that there might be levels of even greater detail, but that 
isn't implemented...


cheers
ant



Nice bit of code though.

Toby


On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:41 AM, antantof...@gmail.com  wrote:

Hi,

I have noticed mappers make various attempts to map coverage of Bing high
resolution imagery. Some drawed areas around the imagery and stuffed them
into relations, others created xml files etc. etc. (see the wiki page [1])
I thought that a world coverage map wasn't feasible with those methods, so I
took Martijn van Exel's Bing analyzer and tweaked in a way that it creates a
simple red/green map of hires coverage (green=hires available, red=hires not
available).
You will see that only a few spots have been rendered so far, but that is
due to the way it works: You must zoom in to a hires zoom level in order to
trigger the rendering. Try it out:
http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/

cheers
ant


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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/2/7 ant antof...@gmail.com:
 What is your definition of hires?
 the definition of hires used in this application is imagery is available
 at zoom level 14 or more. If you compare coverage areas linked to on the
 wiki page, you'll see that almost all of them correspond to that definition.

 I'm aware that there might be levels of even greater detail, but that isn't
 implemented...


Yes, I agree that more colours could clarify this. Currently, all
areas in Italy seem to be green, where some of the ones I checked
offer resolutions up to zoom 17 (not quite the very best imagery
imaginable) and others up to 20 (absolutely sufficient for the very
most OSM-usecases). I you would use a colour scale for availability at
different zoom levels this tool would gain a lot IMHO, without
requiring a lot of effort to implement.

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread Toby Murray
Well the jump from 13 to 14 is a pretty big milestone for aerial
imagery. You go from rough blobs to distinguishable features. So that
does make sense.

But yeah, all of the US is just going to be solid green with this
definition. Maybe a red/yellow/green scheme? Red means z14, yellow
indicates z14-18 and green is for z19+? Or maybe different colors for
those colorblind people among us :)

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread ant

On 07.02.2011 16:48, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:

Yes, I agree that more colours could clarify this. Currently, all
areas in Italy seem to be green, where some of the ones I checked
offer resolutions up to zoom 17 (not quite the very best imagery
imaginable) and others up to 20 (absolutely sufficient for the very
most OSM-usecases). I you would use a colour scale for availability at
different zoom levels this tool would gain a lot IMHO, without
requiring a lot of effort to implement.


Can you give an example of a zoom 20 region? I'd like to have a look.

Thanks

ant



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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/2/7 Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com:
 Well the jump from 13 to 14 is a pretty big milestone for aerial
 imagery. You go from rough blobs to distinguishable features. So that
 does make sense.

 But yeah, all of the US is just going to be solid green with this
 definition. Maybe a red/yellow/green scheme? Red means z14, yellow
 indicates z14-18 and green is for z19+? Or maybe different colors for
 those colorblind people among us :)


I would use a scale like
#19ff00 Z20+
#99ff00 Z18-19
#ffe500 Z15-17
#ff6600 Z14

or possibly a colour tone for each level.

cheers,
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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/2/7 ant antof...@gmail.com:

 Can you give an example of a zoom 20 region? I'd like to have a look.

http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=41.8901512469295lon=12.492339797131855zoom=20

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread Toby Murray
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:02 AM, ant antof...@gmail.com wrote:
 Can you give an example of a zoom 20 region? I'd like to have a look.

http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=39.294169460227224lon=-94.71799114942492zoom=20

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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Wendorff

Hi ant.
The tool is great, but it would be even greater to have the specific 
zoom level availlable instead of 14 or more.
14 may be a threshold of useability in many areas, but for other 
purposes even 17, 18 or 19 may be the treshold (e.g. mapping of 
sidewalks, mapping of street lanterns ;) (compare the AeroWest imagery 
we have (had?) availlable for use in Dortmund).


regards
Peter

P.S.: if possible, an OSM map overlay would be great, too ;)

Am 07.02.2011 16:27, schrieb ant:

Hi Toby,

On 07.02.2011 16:21, Toby Murray wrote:

What is your definition of hires? Zooming in on my city shows green
where I would consider the imagery to be decent but nothing
spectacular. (I think it is mostly just USGS ~1m imagery reused by
Bing)


the definition of hires used in this application is imagery is 
available at zoom level 14 or more. If you compare coverage areas 
linked to on the wiki page, you'll see that almost all of them 
correspond to that definition.


I'm aware that there might be levels of even greater detail, but that 
isn't implemented...


cheers
ant



Nice bit of code though.

Toby


On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:41 AM, antantof...@gmail.com  wrote:

Hi,

I have noticed mappers make various attempts to map coverage of Bing 
high
resolution imagery. Some drawed areas around the imagery and stuffed 
them
into relations, others created xml files etc. etc. (see the wiki 
page [1])
I thought that a world coverage map wasn't feasible with those 
methods, so I
took Martijn van Exel's Bing analyzer and tweaked in a way that it 
creates a
simple red/green map of hires coverage (green=hires available, 
red=hires not

available).
You will see that only a few spots have been rendered so far, but 
that is
due to the way it works: You must zoom in to a hires zoom level in 
order to

trigger the rendering. Try it out:
http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/

cheers
ant


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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread ant

On 07.02.2011 17:36, Peter Wendorff wrote:

Hi ant.
The tool is great, but it would be even greater to have the specific
zoom level availlable instead of 14 or more.


That seems to be what most people wish to see. I'll work on that.

cheers
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Re: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread Jo
2011/2/7 Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de:
 Hi ant.
 The tool is great, but it would be even greater to have the specific zoom
 level availlable instead of 14 or more.
 14 may be a threshold of useability in many areas, but for other purposes
 even 17, 18 or 19 may be the treshold (e.g. mapping of sidewalks, mapping of
 street lanterns ;) (compare the AeroWest imagery we have (had?) availlable
 for use in Dortmund).

Counting the number of white lines in pedestrian crossings :-)

Jo

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[OSM-ja] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage

2011-02-07 Thread Tomomichi Hayakawa
Tomです。

Bing上に、カバーエリアを表示するツールのようです。(たぶん^^;;
ズームしていくと、カーバー状況が色分けされていきます。一度、お試しください。

http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=38.38333768390208lon=138.2929893374731zoom=6

みんなで、見て行くと、一気にカバーエリアが色分けされていくんだと思われます。


-- Forwarded message --
From: ant antof...@gmail.com
Date: 2011/2/7
Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage
To: t...@openstreetmap.org


Hi,

I have noticed mappers make various attempts to map coverage of Bing
high resolution imagery. Some drawed areas around the imagery and
stuffed them into relations, others created xml files etc. etc. (see
the wiki page [1])
I thought that a world coverage map wasn't feasible with those
methods, so I took Martijn van Exel's Bing analyzer and tweaked in a
way that it creates a simple red/green map of hires coverage
(green=hires available, red=hires not available).
You will see that only a few spots have been rendered so far, but that
is due to the way it works: You must zoom in to a hires zoom level in
order to trigger the rendering. Try it out:
http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/

cheers
ant


[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Coverage

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[OSM-ja] Bing上に、カバーエリアを表示するツール(Was: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage)

2011-02-07 Thread S.Higashi
東です。

# Gmailだと宛先が変わってもタイトルが変わらないとスレッドが続いてしまうので
(英文メールに埋もれてしまうので)タイトルを変えさせて頂きました。

これ便利ですね!
色分けについていろんな意見が出ていますが、現在のところ
地上の物体が認識できるズームレベル14を境に
赤と緑で塗り分けているようです。

2011/2/8, Tomomichi Hayakawa tom.hayak...@gmail.com:
 Tomです。

 Bing上に、カバーエリアを表示するツールのようです。(たぶん^^;;
 ズームしていくと、カーバー状況が色分けされていきます。一度、お試しください。

 http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=38.38333768390208lon=138.2929893374731zoom=6

 みんなで、見て行くと、一気にカバーエリアが色分けされていくんだと思われます。


 -- Forwarded message --
 From: ant antof...@gmail.com
 Date: 2011/2/7
 Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage
 To: t...@openstreetmap.org


 Hi,

 I have noticed mappers make various attempts to map coverage of Bing
 high resolution imagery. Some drawed areas around the imagery and
 stuffed them into relations, others created xml files etc. etc. (see
 the wiki page [1])
 I thought that a world coverage map wasn't feasible with those
 methods, so I took Martijn van Exel's Bing analyzer and tweaked in a
 way that it creates a simple red/green map of hires coverage
 (green=hires available, red=hires not available).
 You will see that only a few spots have been rendered so far, but that
 is due to the way it works: You must zoom in to a hires zoom level in
 order to trigger the rendering. Try it out:
 http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/

 cheers
 ant


 [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Coverage

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