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The need for it isn't quite as much in populated areas either, at least for OSM's purposes. Bing's aerial imagery is fairly high-resolution and timely over citi
by _delirium 13y ago
The need for it isn't quite as much in populated areas either, at least for OSM's purposes. Bing's aerial imagery is fairly high-resolution and timely over cities (at least cities in the western world), and they allow use of it as a layer to trace OSM features from: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing
- citrin_ru 13y agohi-res Bing not always available even in Europe (e. g. http://tiny.cc/p27t6w http://tiny.cc/p27t6w) and Siberia almost not covered.
- mkesper 13y agoPush your local government to open up their data! Eg North Rhine-Westphalia has published an "NRW-Atlas" which can be used to draw maps from it (no automatic imports, though), the data is really good in general. http://www.bezreg-koeln.nrw.de/brk_internet/organisation/abteilung07/produkte/nrwatlas/index.html http://www.bezreg-koeln.nrw.de/brk_internet/organisation/abt... http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=22926 http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=22926 (german)