I can confirm, I checked in some places in Benin and Senegal where I've been recently. And yes, it is a tremendous improvement! From no imagery to imagery and from flue imagery to good imagery. Local OSM communities are very happy with it :-)
Greetings, Jorieke 2017-05-12 12:40 GMT+02:00 Thibaut Philippart <[email protected]> : > Hello > > The imagery seems to be also more recent than SPW (less than 1 year in LLN > and Chaumont area ; I didn't check in other areas). > > Yep, definitely useful ! > > Thibaut > > On May 12, 2017 8:51 AM, joost schouppe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, they even seemed to prioritize areas which had no decent coverage at > all. For example, I checked my "area of interest" in Bolivia, and there's a > lot of new woods to map (I like to following the outline of civilization): > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/-17.3651/-65.2039 > > Tais just pointed out that in Congo as well, some places are now mapable > that weren't before. So if you had some areas of interest that had bad > imagery before, now you will probably have something better. > > As for Belgium: the imagery seems to be much more recent than Bing, check > for example here: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=18/50.63689/4.17203 > > I for one am not going to use SPW imagery until we have a more official > letter from them, so for my Walloon mapping, this is definitely useful. > > > -- > Joost Schouppe > OpenStreetMap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | > Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn > <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup > <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > >
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