Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Analyzer

2015-12-31 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It doesn't show the actual age of the tiles as far as I know but the ant site is still up, you probably just have the leaflet version in your bookmarks/history. Apparently it has been recoded or something and only the bing version works now. Here is

[OSM-talk] Bing Analyzer

2015-12-30 Thread Dale Kunce
I was doing some work tonight and I wanted to find the age of the Bing tiles I was working with. I went to use the great Bing Analyzer TMS that Ant did for his site a while back but it appears to be down. Martijn's site still seems to be working but it doesn't have a proper TMS from what I can tel

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing satellite tiles

2015-07-06 Thread maning sambale
Not yet according to a Bing exec: https://mobile.twitter.com/rbrundritt/status/616028862531530752 On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Jason Remillard wrote: > Hi, > > Given the recent large changes to Microsoft's bing mapping group, is osm at > risk for losing access to the bing (uber?) satellite ti

[OSM-talk] Bing satellite tiles

2015-07-06 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi, Given the recent large changes to Microsoft's bing mapping group, is osm at risk for losing access to the bing (uber?) satellite tiles? It is a pretty important resource to osm. Jason ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openst

[OSM-talk] Bing Imagery update (was: Bing coverage dropped dramatically in Taiwan)

2015-05-19 Thread Hsiao-Ting Yu [:littlebtc]
Follow-up: Today Bing updated its imagery to g=3515. A lot of area in Taiwan is back, especially Taipei - though some imagery in central Taipei is captured in about 2005 :O I don't know how the case changes in other regions. Take a look at the Bing satellite today! 2015-04-11 17:59 GMT+08:00 man

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]" 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Aerial Imagery Analyzer for OpenStreetMap

2012-12-05 Thread hbogner
It works, thanks :D On 4.12.2012. 23:38, ant wrote: Hi, due to popular request I've tweaked the Bing analyser so you can use it with editors. The analyser can now work like a TMS that tunnels Bing imagery through to your editor while the processing is done in the background. TMS URL: http://an

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Aerial Imagery Analyzer for OpenStreetMap

2012-12-04 Thread Pierre Béland
Works for me also but very slow.   Pierre > > De : Svavar Kjarrval >À : talk@openstreetmap.org >Envoyé le : Mardi 4 décembre 2012 17h58 >Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Aerial Imagery Analyzer for OpenStreetMap > >Excellent work! :) &g

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Aerial Imagery Analyzer for OpenStreetMap

2012-12-04 Thread Svavar Kjarrval
Excellent work! :) It works for me. The tiles don't load as fast as before but I can live with that. - Svavar Kjarrval On 04/12/12 22:38, ant wrote: > Hi, > > due to popular request I've tweaked the Bing analyser so you can use it > with editors. The analyser can now work like a TMS that tunnels

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Aerial Imagery Analyzer for OpenStreetMap

2012-12-04 Thread Martijn van Exel
Oh whoops, I didn't see the rest of the thread, excuse me for the redundant info. On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > That was forked from something I did earlier, maybe that helps: > > http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/ > > It should be noted that the ov

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Aerial Imagery Analyzer for OpenStreetMap

2012-12-04 Thread Martijn van Exel
That was forked from something I did earlier, maybe that helps: http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/ It should be noted that the overlay tiles are cached and the cache is not managed in any smart way, so the data may be up to a year old (which is when I last cleaned the cache).

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Aerial Imagery Analyzer for OpenStreetMap

2012-12-04 Thread ant
Hi, due to popular request I've tweaked the Bing analyser so you can use it with editors. The analyser can now work like a TMS that tunnels Bing imagery through to your editor while the processing is done in the background. TMS URL: http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/tile.php/{zoo

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Aerial Imagery Analyzer for OpenStreetMap

2012-12-04 Thread hbogner
Thx, I know about that one, but I'm looking for script/application for the first one to update curent coverage. On 4.12.2012. 10:52, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) wrote: Not sure if this helps you or not, but there is another Bing Image Analyser available at: http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bing

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Aerial Imagery Analyzer for OpenStreetMap

2012-12-04 Thread Graham Stewart (GrahamS)
Not sure if this helps you or not, but there is another Bing Image Analyser available at: http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/ This one provides the date that each tile was provided. -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Bing-Aerial-Imagery-Analyzer-

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Aerial Imagery Analyzer for OpenStreetMap

2012-12-03 Thread hbogner
Off course it would. I see this being used already but cant find the source, so I do it manualy for now. Regards, Hrvoje Bogner On 12/03/2012 09:21 PM, Svavar Kjarrval wrote: It would be quicker still if we'd get "editor support". If a user would use the BING imagery within JOSM, for example,

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Aerial Imagery Analyzer for OpenStreetMap

2012-12-03 Thread Svavar Kjarrval
It would be quicker still if we'd get "editor support". If a user would use the BING imagery within JOSM, for example, it would process the information and update the BING coverage analyser. - Svavar Kjarrval On 03/12/12 20:11, hbogner wrote: > I know people are using scripts and some application

[OSM-talk] Bing Aerial Imagery Analyzer for OpenStreetMap

2012-12-03 Thread hbogner
I know people are using scripts and some applications to check out for coverage. I found one application that follows border of high resolution imagery, but it's not good for small areas. I want to do a grid automation for a small area, like the ones at http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingi

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2012-09-20 Thread Svavar Kjarrval
h ones to apply to the empty areas. - Svavar Kjarrval On 20/09/12 07:28, Hendrik Oesterlin wrote: > "Hendrik Oesterlin" wrote on 18/06/2011 at 16:27:27 +1100 > subject "[OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities" : > >> "Steve Coast" wrote on 17/06/2011

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2012-09-20 Thread Hendrik Oesterlin
"Hendrik Oesterlin" wrote on 18/06/2011 at 16:27:27 +1100 subject "[OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities" : > "Steve Coast" wrote on 17/06/2011 at 08:09:37 +1100 > subject "[OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities" : >> I'm speaking

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=32.001059&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

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=32.001059&lon=34.825519&zoom=18&layers=M > > The "Hires coverage of Bing imagery in the Near East" label is from the > name on this relat

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 b

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 wrote: > On 27.04.2012 03:

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

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

2012-04-26 Thread maning sambale
d 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 >> >

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 > Sub

[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=32.001059&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 "per

[OSM-talk] Bing Imagery with many clouds (was: Bing high resolution coverage extended over Syria)

2012-03-12 Thread Arlindo Pereira
nsion of Bing imagery? > > > * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron > > -- > *From:* Jean-Guilhem Cailton > *To:* OSM-talk ; HOT > *Sent:* Saturday, February 11, 2012 1:31 PM > *Subject:* [OSM-talk] Bing high resolution covera

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing imagery

2012-02-12 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, On 11 February 2012 01:33, Andrew Errington wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:03:01 Douglas Musaazi wrote: > Don't forget- sometimes Bing imagery is not accurately aligned.  You should > double-check the alignment of the images before tracing from them.  Potlatch > and JOSM have tools which wil

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing high resolution coverage extended over Syria

2012-02-11 Thread Mikel Maron
PM >Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing high resolution coverage extended over Syria > >Hi, > >Thanks to its recent extension, Bing high resolution coverage now >includes, among others, the city of Homs, whose street network is very >partially mapped in OSM : > >http://ousm.fr/syria/?

[OSM-talk] Bing high resolution coverage extended over Syria

2012-02-11 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Hi, Thanks to its recent extension, Bing high resolution coverage now includes, among others, the city of Homs, whose street network is very partially mapped in OSM : http://ousm.fr/syria/?zoom=14&lat=34.72957&lon=36.7164&layers=00B000TT Thank you Bing ! Best wishes, Jean-Guilhem -- gpg 0x59

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing imagery and the remap campaign

2012-02-10 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:03:01 Douglas Musaazi wrote: > We shall also use this opportunity for the participants to re-map their > previous edits and correct those that could have been mapped wrongly, and > also agree to the new osm odbl licence. Don't forget- sometimes Bing imagery is not accuratel

[OSM-talk] Bing imagery and the remap campaign

2012-02-10 Thread Douglas Musaazi
Hi all.. I think "this is an opportunity that met a prepared mind". Just as we were organizing a mapping reflection day at the Uganda Christian University in Mukono this saturday 11th Feb 2012, we realized that  the bing satellite imagery was available for this area (http://www.openstreetmap.o

[OSM-talk] Bing tracing mistakes (was Night of the living maps 07.02.2012 - a 'virtual' global mapping party)

2012-01-27 Thread Matthias Meißer
Hi, I hope it's ok to move the discussion on a more general topic, so hopefully we can get the original thread for organisazion stuff. Am 27.01.2012 11:54, schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: 2012/1/27 Nick Whitelegg: Good idea but - I would like to urge some degree of caution on this in the UK.

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps to get Nokia branding on all devices - including rivals'

2012-01-20 Thread Frank Steggink
On 20-1-2012 17:49, Frank Steggink wrote: According to this article [1] (via [2]) at Pocket-lint: "Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, has told Pocket-lint that we shall soon be seeing the Nokia brand name within other devices and not just the company's own phones." "Part of the relationship we establishe

[OSM-talk] Bing Maps to get Nokia branding on all devices - including rivals'

2012-01-20 Thread Frank Steggink
According to this article [1] (via [2]) at Pocket-lint: "Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, has told Pocket-lint that we shall soon be seeing the Nokia brand name within other devices and not just the company's own phones." "Part of the relationship we established with Microsoft is that we are clearly pl

[OSM-talk] bing priorities

2011-09-19 Thread Douglas Musaazi
Hi, We have included our entries on the wiki, for satellite aerial imagery here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Priorities#Uganda and we hope by the time we organise the next mapping day, to any of those areas we shall have the satellite imagery available. Thanks to Martin and Gregor

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-18 Thread Matthias Julius
David Murn writes: > On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 09:16 -0500, Toby Murray wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:19 PM, David Murn wrote: >> > when all the nearmap-derived data is removed >> >> It seems like you missed an email a couple of days ago? >> >> Current NearMap derived data does not need to

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-17 Thread Hendrik Oesterlin
"Steve Coast" wrote on 17/06/2011 at 08:09:37 +1100 subject "[OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities" : > I'm speaking personally and there are no guarantees here but I'd like to > get input on what areas you would like Bing to prioritise for aerial >

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-17 Thread David Murn
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 09:16 -0500, Toby Murray wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:19 PM, David Murn wrote: > > when all the nearmap-derived data is removed > > It seems like you missed an email a couple of days ago? > > Current NearMap derived data does not need to be removed from OSM > during

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-17 Thread Matthias Julius
Steve Coast schrieb: >I'm speaking personally and there are no guarantees here but I'd like >to >get input on what areas you would like Bing to prioritise for aerial >and/or satellite imagery in the coming year. Large areas of Switzerland have pretty low resolution. A couple cities have re

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-17 Thread yvecai
Not so badly mapped, but Switzerland seriously lack of images (except the R-Pod project). Given the currency rate, it may not be the good year to buy ortho from SwissTopo. I wouldn't call that a priority though. Yves On 16. 06. 11 23:09, Steve Coast wrote: Hi I'm speaking personally and ther

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-17 Thread Kate Chapman
Right, what I was trying to propose was if making imagery available would spark community in some places. Kate On Jun 17, 2011 12:23 PM, "Frederik Ramm" wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/17/11 17:18, Kate Chapman wrote: >> Yes I agree that the arm chair mapping isn't the best method of >> collection. Though

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/17/11 17:18, Kate Chapman wrote: Yes I agree that the arm chair mapping isn't the best method of collection. Though in some areas it will be difficult to ever have mappers on the ground without imagery. The cost of a GPS is prohibitive in many places. Oh I wasn't referring to any k

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 June 2011 01:18, Kate Chapman wrote: > Hi Frederik, > > Yes I agree that the arm chair mapping isn't the best method of > collection.  Though in some areas it will be difficult to ever have > mappers on the ground without imagery.  The cost of a GPS is > prohibitive in many places. For othe

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-17 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Frederik, Yes I agree that the arm chair mapping isn't the best method of collection. Though in some areas it will be difficult to ever have mappers on the ground without imagery. The cost of a GPS is prohibitive in many places. I've been working with some rural areas in Indonesia and it was

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-17 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:19 PM, David Murn wrote: > when all the nearmap-derived data is removed It seems like you missed an email a couple of days ago? Current NearMap derived data does not need to be removed from OSM during the license change. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/17/11 08:15, Gehling Marc wrote: I would suggest that images are updated from countries that are currently inan upheaval as Egypt, Tunisia, Libya What Would FakeSteveC say? http://fakestevec.blogspot.com/2011/04/know-your-osm-memes-4.html Oh, that. Jokes aside, I think the ideal u

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-17 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 17/06/2011 08:15, Gehling Marc a écrit : > I would suggest that images are updated from countries that are currently inan upheaval as Egypt, Tunisia, Libya Hi, +1. High resolution coverage of Libya, Tunisia and Algeria is currently limited to

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-16 Thread Gehling Marc
Hello, I would suggest that images are updated from countries that are currently inan upheaval as Egypt, Tunisia, Libya Am 16.06.2011 um 23:09 schrieb Steve Coast: > Hi > > I'm speaking personally and there are no guarantees here but I'd like to get > input on what areas you would like Bing

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-16 Thread David Murn
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 13:52 +1000, John Smith wrote: > On 17 June 2011 13:19, David Murn wrote: > > There are numerous programs that exist which show the density of mapping > > in certain areas. Maybe it would be useful to find the more heavily > > mapped areas that dont have coverage? > > That'

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-16 Thread John Smith
On 17 June 2011 13:19, David Murn wrote: > There are numerous programs that exist which show the density of mapping > in certain areas.  Maybe it would be useful to find the more heavily > mapped areas that dont have coverage? That's making assumptions that larger towns are mapped already, howeve

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-16 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 14:09 -0700, Steve Coast wrote: > I'm speaking personally and there are no guarantees here but I'd like to > get input on what areas you would like Bing to prioritise for aerial > and/or satellite imagery in the coming year. There are numerous programs that exist which sho

[OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-16 Thread Steve Coast
Hi I'm speaking personally and there are no guarantees here but I'd like to get input on what areas you would like Bing to prioritise for aerial and/or satellite imagery in the coming year. Please mail sco...@microsoft.com with the area in question (I'd love to accept bounding boxes but don't

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread SomeoneElse
On 13/06/2011 16:34, Stephan Knauss wrote: As long as MS wants to promote Silverlight using the OSM layer they should at least not silently fall back to another map. So either serve OSM with plain JS or tell the user it won't. If you believe the news / rumour sites, they might not be insis

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Stephan Knauss
On 13.06.2011 12:40, Borbus wrote: On 13/06/11 11:29, Stephan Knauss wrote: This seams to be the reason. Bing should not silently fall back to other data but nag you to install Silverlight. I'd rather it didn't because I'm not going to install Silverlight (in fact I couldn't even if I wanted t

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Borbus
On 13/06/11 11:29, Stephan Knauss wrote: > This seams to be the reason. Bing should not silently fall back to other > data but nag you to install Silverlight. I'd rather it didn't because I'm not going to install Silverlight (in fact I couldn't even if I wanted to). It would be a lot better if i

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Stephan Knauss
On 13.06.2011 11:44, Jochen Topf wrote: FF 3.6.17 on Linux, no Silverlight. This seams to be the reason. Bing should not silently fall back to other data but nag you to install Silverlight. I CC'ed Steve. @Steve: Consider a nag screen or even better provide the tiles using the plain JS API a

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Jochen Topf
05:07:31PM +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:07:31 +1000 > From: Nick Hocking > To: talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing > > Jochen, > > I see attribution on my browser (bottom left corner). Rendering is, I think >

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing.

2011-06-13 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/6/13 Stephan Knauss : > needs Silverlight that is really amazing... I don't have silverlight so I only get their dumb standard map... cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing.

2011-06-13 Thread Stephan Knauss
On 13.06.2011 08:01, Grant Slater wrote: Do you mean Bing or MapQuest? I wasn't aware that Bing was using OSM data yet. Example link? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing#OpenStreetMap_via_the_Bing_Maps_APIs http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/s=w/5872/style=Mapnik&pid=50735 needs Silve

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, June 13, 2011 17:01, Ed Loach wrote: > If I recall correctly, the Mapnik �Openstreetmap Mode� requires > Silverlight, so the link below might show you a different view if > you don�t have it installed. Or perhaps I�m thinking of the Map App, if > that is different? Hmm, well I don't have S

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread John Smith
On 13 June 2011 18:01, Ed Loach wrote: > If I recall correctly, the Mapnik “Openstreetmap Mode” requires Silverlight, > so the link below might show you a different view if you don’t have it > installed. Or perhaps I’m thinking of the Map App, if that is different? I'd forgotten about that and it

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Ed Loach
2011 07:08 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing Hi Grant http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/s=w <http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/s=w&p=c/5872/style=Mapnik&la t=-35.206078&lon=149.103028&z=17&pid=50735> &p=c/5872/s

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Nick Hocking
http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#5003/s=w&p=c/5872/style=Mapnik&lat=37.506163&lon=127.050212&z=14&pid=50735 Works for me. But I'll go check out Yahoo and Google and see what the diffs are> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Andrew Errington < a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > On Mon, June 13

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread John Smith
On 13 June 2011 17:07, Nick Hocking wrote: > 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. I onl

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, June 13, 2011 16:07, Nick Hocking wrote: > 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Nick Hocking
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 wr

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Thread Jochen Topf
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. Tha

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing.

2011-06-12 Thread Graham Jones
I was going to say something similar about the main OSM mapnik rendering. Last night the high zoom level had rendered by the time I had closed Potlatch2. Well done to those running our rendering servers! Graham from my phone On 13 Jun 2011 07:04, "Grant Slater" wrote: On 13 June 2011 06:45, Ni

[OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-12 Thread Nick Hocking
Hi Grant 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. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing.

2011-06-12 Thread Grant Slater
On 13 June 2011 06:45, Nick Hocking wrote: > I just added some more new roads to the Canberra area. They were rendered in > Bing maps within 10 seconds of uploading to OSM!!! > Do you mean Bing or MapQuest? I wasn't aware that Bing was using OSM data yet. Example link? / Grant _

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing.

2011-06-12 Thread Andrew Errington
On Mon, June 13, 2011 14:45, Nick Hocking wrote: > I just added some more new roads to the Canberra area. They were rendered > in Bing maps within 10 seconds of uploading to OSM!!! > > > Now that's instant gratification. Also bing maps are the slippiest > around by a healthy margin. I can be zoome

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. 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

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? Th

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

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=51.06122731915702&lon=-2.3915486787965934&zoom=9 The blank areas have hi

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

2011-02-10 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 11 February 2011 02:43, Toby Murray wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Dave F. 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

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

2011-02-10 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Dave F. 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,

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

2011-02-10 Thread Dermot McNally
On 11 February 2011 00:27, Dave F. 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 t

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

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

2011-02-10 Thread Dermot McNally
On 11 February 2011 00:00, Dave F. 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 theo

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=51.420057188094106&lon=-2.4574914579781226&zoom=20 In order to see if an area is "super high

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

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

2011-02-10 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:37 PM, 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 h

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

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

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

2011-02-10 Thread Lennard
On 10-2-2011 19:03, Toby Murray wrote: 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=39.19008048219242&lon=-96.60511479564622&zoom=14 @an

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

2011-02-10 Thread ant
On 10.02.2011 19:03, Toby Murray wrote: 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=39.19008048219242&lon=-96.60511479564622&zoom=14 I

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=39.19008048219242&lon=-96.60511479564622&zoom=14 Toby ___

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 i

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

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

2011-02-08 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:59 AM, ant 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, l

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. Cheers, Jo ___ talk mailin

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 ma

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=2&cp=60.17150065552734~24.93957236409227

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. Toby ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetm

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 mi

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

[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 Montreal

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