Matt, Andy & Rob,
We have had the new Bing Maps covering most of Coventry and much of the
surrounding countryside for about 6 months now, and spreading fast. Like
your area, it is not at the highest zoom.
I am now always using the new version for alignment, which as well as being
up to date is always aligned as good & often much better that the old
versions. All results based on the new maps that I have tested for
accuracy are now for practical purposes in line with the latest Google Earth
maps, and would appear to be the same as found on the ground.
The only real use I make of the highest zoom level is to trace buildings
more accurately and easier for shape, then to move them to line up with the
latest version for better accuracy. Occasionally I also use the highest
zoom level to see what an area was like some years back!
Questions:
1. Should everyone be encouraged to adopt my methodology?
2. When will we get the new maps at highest zoom level?
PeterP
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Williams
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:10 PM
To: Andy Robinson
Cc: talk-gb-westmidlands
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] BING imagery
On 18 September 2013 11:41, Andy Robinson <ajrli...@gmail.com> wrote:
I note some new BING (satellite?) imagery in our area that wasn't there
before I went away. It's not available at the highest zoom but is useful
for
tracing of new infrastructure built in the last few years. For Brum its
mostly on the east of the city but plenty of other areas covered too. For
me
the interesting bit is north of Brum (Lichfield etc) which now has much
better tracing data. Some of it is a bit dark making line definition
through
shadow difficult but it's a big improvement on what was there before and
most importantly its much more up to date for these areas which were
mostly
still showing data from more than 5 years ago.
It looks like it's the Nokia imagery as a result of their new
alliance. It's certainly more up to date than the Bing release we had
last year. I haven't checked alignment yet but hopefully it's ok.
Matt
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