Some areas that have high-resolution in Mapbox satellite imagery that aren't covered by Bing include:
- western Siquijor (black and white) - greater Tagbilaran (cloudy though) - Bago City, Negros (black and white) - Ormoc City, Leyte (black and white) - all of Batanes !!! (color) - Pag-asa Island, Kalayaan, Palawan !!! (color) - eastern Surigao City (black and white) - eastern Kalibo, Aklan (black and white) - middle of Marinduque (color) - Calapan, Oriental Mindoro (color) - Baler, Aurora (color) - Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija (color) - Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte (black and white) - Bais City, Negros Oriental (black and white) - portions near Borongan, Eastern Samar (black and white) - and many more! Happy tracing! On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi guys, > > Here's some great news from our friends over at Mapbox and DigitalGlobe! > > More info here: > http://www.digitalglobeblog.com/2014/04/09/mappingtheworldinosm/ > > I guess this is the big announcement for the State of the Map US which > will be held in Washington, D.C. this weekend. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alex Barth <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:56 PM > Subject: [OSM-talk] High res DigitalGlobe imagery open for tracing through > Mapbox Satellite > To: Talk <[email protected]> > Cc: Kevin Bullock <[email protected]> > > > Effective immediately the Mapbox Satellite option in iD and JOSM is 100% > open for tracing in OpenStreetMap, including all our high resolution > DigitalGlobe imagery. This is full coverage down to zoom level 19 imagery > in the US + Western Europe and world wide to zoom level 17. > > To use this imagery select "Mapbox Satellite" from the imagery menu in iD > on the web or in JOSM. Mapbox Satellite is open for tracing in > OpenStreetMap in general and not tied to a specific editor, so if you would > like to add Mapbox Satellite to another OpenStreetMap editor you are > welcome to do so. > > Big props to Kevin Bullock (cc'ed) and our friends at DigitalGlobe - it's > fantastic working with good people who see wins of working with > OpenStreetMap. > > Alex > > PS - on an existing installation of JOSM you'll have to refresh your > imagery menu like so: http://cl.ly/image/383O2L0t431s > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > >
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