Maybe you are also the person to ask: Why are “you” (bing) blurring military areas and google does not? (if you can’t answer this question, it’s also ok - but we (OSM Germany) were just wondering…)
Brilliant - here is the updated status map: http://imageshack.us/a/img856/919/statusal.jpg
Green is acquired, Yellow is being flown, Red to be acquired in Sept/Oct - weather permitting.
Ich spreche besser Englisch, ich bin Kanadier, sondern studierte Germanistik in der Schule.
Wow, great. Thanks a lot…so don’t need to cut the meadow tomorrow…you alread have the image. We never had a guy like you here so apologise if we are asking too many questions. I have another one (or two). Is there any plan to update the arial images in eastern and south east europe? And my second one, please don’t misunderstand me, how did you find the way to this forum?
No plans as of right now, but conditions could change in the future. I found this forum by way of research; I am working on something that could be of benefit to OSM community and wanted to understand the current pain points and issues. I happened to stumble upon this. I am not affiliated with bing, nor would this research/project I am working on.
2 more (technical) questions:
a) 15 cm - as planned for germany - has been abandoned, right?
b) when measuring the pixel width (in josm) I got nearly 40 cm. Do we really “loose” 10 cm through transformation process(es)?
Shadows, and green…There are only some small windows where you can get the best images for tracing. For Bing they probably want “colored” images with forests in green, etc. They are not making the images for us, we would like images with no shadow, no clouds and no green on trees
Das für spezielle Regionen Laubfreiheit eine Bedingung ist. Nur ist es halt sehr aufwändig, das für größere Flächen sicherzustellen, denn wie du schon sagst, der Zeitraum ist sehr begrenzt.
Ah, okay. Du hast immer mehrere Wünsche, die teils gegenläufig sind…natürliche Farben (belaubt), gute Sicht auf Objekte (unbelaubt). Dann hat man je nach Jahreszeit noch dunkle Schatten, die im Frühjahr und Herbst besonders dunkel werden können, zu berücksichtigen. Im Winter kann dann der Schnee spiegeln. Und Wolken will man ja nie haben.
All das schränkt das Zeitfenster ziemlich ein
a) correct you will only see that for a limited number of cities (4)
b) flight acq is always done at sub-30cm, with a true 30cm ortho ground sampling distance. Any changes to that would be from transformation i.e. to Web Mercator
Sun elevation angle is too low. Good aerial imagery requires sun elevation angles above 30 degrees. see this for reference: http://www.jgiesen.de/azimuth/index.html
right, the long shadows are attributed to low sun elevation angle. also correct that snow is not permissable. winter flying does take place in Sicily, Malta, Seville etc
Die Hälfte von Rheinland-Pfalz (etwas unter Höhe Mainz) ist auch noch gelb - aber die letzten werden die ersten sein, bzw. die mit den aktuellsten Bildern, hat doch auch sein positives.