Is there a way to request/demand bing to allow imagery tracing? (Doesn't like MS to simply piggyback on our success, they should definitely help in expanding mapping.)
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Update on high-resolution imagery (I did a random search) so this will not > be complete: > > 1. The original coverage of Metro Manila area (same extent as with Yahoo!) > 2. Central Cavite (Naic to Silang), southeastern Laguna (San Pedro to Los > Banos), mideastern Batangas (Santo Tomas to Batangas City, including Lipa), > Parts of southern Rizal (Pililla and Talim Island) [this overlaps with #1] > 3. Cebu City, 90% of Mactan Island, eastern Talisay, Mandaue > 4. Legazpi up to Tiwi, Malilipot, Tabaco, Guinobatan, Daraga, Jovellar, down > to Donsol (Sorsogon); Mayon summit is covered with clouds > 5. Downtown Iloilo towards Oton and southern Mandurriao > 6. Zamboanga City up to Pasonanca, and the southeastern islands > 7. Cagayan de Oro > 8. Downtown Puerto Princesa, *not* including Honda Bay > 9. Tacloban (including San Juanico Bridge) down to Dulag (Bing has downtown > Palo which Google doesn't) > 10. Iligan down to the northern shore of Lake Lanao (almost all of Agno > River is covered) > 11. Cotabato City and nearby parts of Maguindanao and North Cotabato > 12. Puerto Galera (I'm surprised!) > > There is NO coverage for Davao. > > > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> 1. Bing Maps might offer an OSM layer in two weeks time (Tweet: >> http://twitter.com/StevenFeldman/statuses/18185112894) >> >> 2. More importantly, Bing is considering letting OSMers trace from Bing's >> satellite imagery (but not yet). >> (http://twitter.com/melaskia/status/18185271681) >> >> As of November 2007, Bing Maps only has satellite imagery in the Metro >> Manila area, as I blogged back then: >> http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/posts/barasoain_from_space >> My blog post links to a KML file I made showing the extent of Yahoo!'s and >> Microsoft's satellite imagery in the Philippines: >> http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com/media/ymaps_livemaps_satellite_coverage_v1.0.kml >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph