[Talk-ca] More Digital Globe content coming to Bing Maps

2012-04-30 Thread Connors, Bernie (SNB)
http://ow.ly/aBMeA Microsoft has signed a new deal with satellite operator Digital Globe for more high-resolution earth imagery for Bing Maps. This is good news for OSM users like me who like to trace satellite imagery and combine it with my local knowledge. Does anybody know if there is a

Re: [Talk-ca] More Digital Globe content coming to Bing Maps

2012-04-30 Thread Harald Kliems
That's great news. Let's hope the accuracy of the new images will be good. For checking the age of Bing imagery, see here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing#Age_of_the_aerial_pictures No idea if this will work with the new images (and apparently it wasn't all that accurate with the old ones

Re: [Talk-ca] More Digital Globe content coming to Bing Maps

2012-04-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: Does anybody know if there is a way to track or identify new imagery ? in JOSM with an imagery layer selected, context click (right click) on the imagery layer, then select show tile info will display the image