That's excellent news! Now I just hope it doesn't take them 5 years to get it. Open source doesn't exactly get a good reception in my area (people aren't very technically literate and are easily sold on simply Microsoft solutions) so anything that I can do to ease the experience for users that might be coming into the OpenStreetmap data seems like a good thing, at least to provide them with a quick response when they report a bug in the area.
On Jan 5, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 10:58 -0600, Kenneth Pardue wrote: >> Don't get me wrong, the Bing imagery is vastly superior in most areas >> to the Yahoo imagery I've been using, but I do wonder if there will be >> ongonig updates to the quality of the Bing imagery? In most rural >> areas of my home state (and in Louisiana, there are many) the Bing >> imagery is extremely blurry and only marginally better than Yahoo. >> >> There's quite a few Mapdust bugs in such areas that are easily fixable >> and that I'd like to work on resolving, but the imagery is so blurry >> it's hard to tell if I'm doing any good. I've seen reference to MS >> devoting effort to getting higher quality imagery for the whole world, >> is this the case? > > I'm in a similar situation here in Sweden (most major cities have > excellent imagery but not the rural areas which is what I'm mostly > interested in). Fortunately it does sound like things will improve: > > We have a collaboration underway with DigitalGlobe to do one of > the largest aerial imagery surveys ever undertaken, covering the > US and Western Europe at 30cm resolution. (The camera we’re > using to do this is an impressive technical achievement, > developed by our Vexcel team in Graz, Austria.) By sharing use > of the imagery with the OSM community, we hope to enable more > OSM goodness. Maybe one day we can find a way to fund this kind > of imaging over less developed parts of the world. > > From http://styleisviolence.com/openstreetmap/ via the Weekly OSM > Summary. > > -- > Cheers, > Sven Arvidsson > http://www.whiz.se > PGP Key ID 760BDD22 > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
