Yeah, that wasn't right of me... I've been using the other sources for a bit now and it's really not as bad as I thought it was, plus there's more of the old imagery still available than I thought through Mapbox/Digitalglobe Standard all over Pennsylvania, just not where I'm currently working on. I guess the relatively high quality (albeit very outdated by the time it was updated) imagery for the whole country spoiled me a little too much. :P
Ignore my previous post, it was dumb. On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 7:55 PM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Albert, > > Please keep in mind that all of this data you're complaining about is > donated to the OSM community and it's a privilege to have access to it. > Please don't take your frustrations out on the providers that are letting > us use their service for free. > > All of the providers that donate their imagery are constantly adding or > improving imagery. Since it takes a lot of work to make these imagery > layers, the "previous iteration" is probably not out there in any way. The > best you can do is go to the provider and ask them to improve the imagery > so that the next imagery update can have better imagery. > > Also, keep an eye out for local imagery from the state (through NAIP, for > example), your county, or city. Governments in the US frequently post their > imagery online for you to use. > > -Ian > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 6:46 PM, Albert Pundt <roadsgu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> With the exception of the higher-resolution imagery in cities, the >> current Bing/ESRI World Imagery is worse than the previous iteration in >> every way except for being newer. It's blurry, often distorted, and >> frequently has clouds covering it. The previous imagery was crisper and >> rarely if ever had clouds, and what little distortion there was was obvious >> and avoidable. >> >> Is there any way to still access this imagery, or at least a better >> alternative to the current Bing/ESRI imagery? If the former, then the >> outdatedness of it could be easily worked around by comparing to the other >> imagery available. It must exist "out there" in some capacity, since the >> Mapbox/Digitalglobe Standard imagery still uses it in western Pennsylvania, >> and even in some low zoom levels on Bing. >> >> I would use some of the other nationwide imagery options available in >> JOSM, but most of them are either low-resolution or with color so bright >> and washed out it's often difficult to map with. >> >> —Albert >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> > -- —Albert
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