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=51.06122731915702&lon=-2.3915486787965934&zoom=9
The blank areas have hi-res imagery (caveat: I have checked every tile)
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