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Bing coverage analyser showing the whole globe

Bing imagery covers the globe with varying detail levels. Most of the globe is only available as very low resolution satellite imagery. This is effectively nasa Landsat imagery forming the base-line for any areas where Bing does not have better imagery coverage. The areas where Bing does have better coverage, are what's really of interest. Within these areas we see a variety of available resolution levels, and ages of the imagery.

Coverage analyzer tool

Bing coverage analyser showing Scotland

A coverage tool is available which allows you to view and discover areas of bing coverage:

http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/

This tool will draw a coverage map of hires imagery. You have to zoom in to zoom level 14 or more to discover high resolution tiles, which will then result in green and red tiles indicating availability of imagery being rendered in all zoom levels.

This is a modified version of the original Bing analyzer ( http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bing/ ) which lets you check coverage and approximate capture date for Bing aerial imagery. The dates shown in this application are taken from the tile metadata as provided by Bing. It's the best we have in the way of metadata. Zoom in and out to see even different ages of each zoom levels! See discussion for error reports.

Boundaries in the data?

Arguably you should not put boundary data into OpenStreetMap. Particularly do not group them into boundary relations. Large, detailed relations can be exceptionally slow to retrieve and cause very high server load, and will generally cause problems at the browser end when accessing via an OpenLayers slippymap client. Significant problems have already been caused by people trying to map coverage with a relation, and then posting the relation URL.

Instead you might make a simple .osm file indicating coverages, uploaded it elsewhere, and link to it.

But for getting a view of Bing coverage you can also simply link to the tool above (it has a 'permalink' feature in the top right)

The coverage lists

The following sections list locations and cities covered by Bing Map's Aerial Imagery.

You can use this page for recording coverage, although tools like the one above make this less necessary,

Contents

Africa

Algeria

Angola

Botswana

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Cape Verde

See coverage levels here: http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bing/?lat=14.989195407375334&lon=-23.538110351559975&zoom=12

Central African Republic

Chad

Comoros

Congo-Brazzaville

Congo-Kinshasa

Côte d’Ivoire

Djibouti

Egypt

Not covered : Qena

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Gabon

Ghana

Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Conakry

Kenya

All of Kenya has better resolution on Bing images than on LandSat or Yahoo, but especially detailed are:

Liberia

Libya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Mauritania

Mauritius

Morocco

Large parts of the country are covered.

Mozambique

Nambia

Niger

Nigeria

Rwanda

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Somalia

South Africa

Eastern Cape

Free State

Gauteng

KwaZulu-Natal

Limpopop

Mpumalanga

North West

Northern Cape

Western Cape

Seychelles

Sudan

Tanzania

The Gambia

Togo

Tunisia

Uganda

Western Sahara

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Asia

Armenia

China

Combined coverage of China Relation.png 1379948 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

Indonesia

Java

Combined coverage of Java Relation.png 1580709 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

Sulawesi

Combined coverage on Sulawesi Relation.png 1580742 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

Iran

Israel

Japan

Details: http://osm-ja.sourceforge.jp/bing-hires-japan.osm

Hokkaido

  • Wakkanai
  • Sapporo
  • Nemuro
  • Tomakomai
  • Chitose
  • Muroran
  • Hakodate
  • Iwamizawa

Tohoku

Aomori

Iwate

Miyagi

Yamagata

Fukushima

Kanto

Gunma

Ibaraki

  • Hitachinaka
  • Inashiki
  • Itako
  • Joso
  • Mito
  • Moriya
  • Namegata
  • Ryugasaki
  • Tsuchiura
  • Tsukubamirai

Saitama

Tokyo

Tochigi

Kanagawa

Chubu

Shizuoka

Aichi

Gifu

Nagano

Hokuriku

Niigata

Toyama

Ishikawa

Kinki

Osaka

Wakayama

Kyoto

Nara

Hyogo

Chugoku

Hiroshima

Okayama

Tottori

Shimane

Yamaguchi

Shikoku

Kochi

Kagawa

Ehime

Kyushu/Okinawa

Miyazaki

Fukuoka

Saga

Kagoshima

Jordan

Lebanon

Malaysia

Overview: Relation.png 1903784 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

Maldives

Nepal

Oman

Philippines

Please check out the High-resolution_imagery wiki page specific for the Philippines.

Saudi Arabia

Sri Lanka

Syria

Thailand

A lot of areas have Bing high resolution coverage. Boundaries are marked by a simple way with "note=Bing Aerial Imagery Coverage". An overview is available at Relation.png 1302934 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

You can switch on a map overlay on http://compare.osm-tools.org/ to show the boundaries and directly launch an edit session in case you have JOSM running. Aerials need alignment. Misalignment might vary so double check with existing GPS tracks. Use common sense.

VietNam

Europe

Austria

Only some cities and some border regions are covered by aerial imagery; for the rest of the country only satellite imagery is available.

Belgium

Bosnia

Bulgaria

Coverage Bulgaria

Huge parts of the country are covered, especially big cities.

Complete view: Relation.png 1338717 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

Croatia

Czech Republic

Complete view: Relation.png 1338862 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

Denmark

Coverage Denmark

Finland

Bing high resolution coverage in Finland 3.3.2011

Bing high resolution coverage in Finland ordered from north to south: Relation.png 1304749 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Irish Coverage Map

Precision Aerial Program

Italy

Only the major cities seem to have a resolution which is higher than already available from Portale Cartografico Nazionale.

Images from the Milan area seem to be mostly from late 2007; sometimes they are mixed with imagery that is a few years older.

A quick sample from the Milan area seems to be aligned precisely at ground level, while objects above (buildings, bridges) or below may be slightly misaligned. Misalignments are likely to occur also in hilly areas or in the mountains (if someone has any experience on that, please add it here).

In some places there are visible artefacts and offsets where two images have been stitched together.

Latvia

See JOSM alignment information in ways offset_imagery tag.

Complete View Relation.png 1895491 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

Liechtenstein

Most of the country is available at 10cm/px resolution, the only exception being the immediate surroundings of the Austrian border.


Lithuania

High-resolution coverage in Lithuania:

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Mf way.png 86992898

Mf way.png 86992900

Mf way.png 86997962

Mf way.png 86992896

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Macedonia

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands

Norway

Coverage of southern Norway.

Poland

All very high resolution satellite (but not as hi-res as the aerials in the US) - about 50cm / px, similar or slightly better than Y!:

Romania

Complete view: Relation.png 1338818 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

Russia

See and update Russian page for the complete list of hi-res images grouped by regions of Russia.

All "mid-resolution" satellite (i.e. not as hi-res as the aerials in the US) about 50cm / px, similar or slightly better than Y!:

Serbia

Serbia Coverage Map

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Remember that there are many other sources of aerial imagery for Spain.

Generally, the border with Portugal seems to have imagery within about 1 km of the border, usggesting more extensive high quality imagery coverage for Portugal

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

Turkey coverage map

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Extensive coverage, however there seems to be two levels of detail - and occasional voids with no imagery at all (e.g. most of Dumfries and Galloway does not have any imagery). There is medium resolution coverage for most of the country - which looks to possibly be from the "Millennium Map" project - and is now 10 years out of date. There are areas of high-resolution coverage - some very small areas - some huge areas (e.g. most of Wales and the Midlands appear to be covered). Some city centres have good coverage. - click here to check details.

Oceania

Australia

List currently incomplete. Places in italics indicate that more current, higher resolution NearMap imagery is available. Asterisks mean that NearMap imagery has been flown (for part or all), but is currently not online yet.

Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

  • Alice Springs
  • Ayers Rock
  • Darwin
  • Katherine
  • The Olgas
  • Palmerston
  • Tennant Creek

South Australia

  • Adelaide Metropolitan Area
  • Gawler*
  • Goolwa
  • Mount Barker
  • Mount Gambier
  • Murray Bridge
  • Nairne
  • Narracoote
  • Nuriootpa*
  • Port Augusta
  • Port Lincoln
  • Port Pirie
  • Stirling
  • Strathalbyn
  • Tanunda*
  • Victor Harbor
  • Whyalla

Tasmania

  • Burnie
  • Devonport
  • Hobart
  • Launceston
  • Penguin
  • Somerset
  • Ulverstone
  • Wynyard

Victoria

Towns:

  • Ararat
  • Bairnsdale
  • Ballarat
  • Bendigo
  • Bright
  • Colac
  • Dimboola
  • Drouin
  • Geelong
  • Horsham
  • Kiewa Valley
  • Lakes Entrance
  • Mallacoota
  • Mansfield
  • Melbourne Metropolitan Area
  • Moe
  • Mornington Peninsula* (northern area)
  • Morwell
  • Nhill
  • North Eastern Victoria
  • Orbost
  • Pakenham
  • Port Campbell
  • Port Fairy
  • Portland
  • Puckapunyal
  • Sale
  • Shepparton
  • South Gippsland areas*
  • St. Arnaud
  • Stawell
  • Stratford
  • Swan Hill
  • Traralgon
  • Warragul
  • Warranambool
  • Wodonga
  • Wycheproof
  • Yarra Valley*

Boundaries:

Western Australia

Kiribati

Currently (2010-12) no highres images of the following Islands: Malden I., Starbuck I., Caroline I., Vostik I., Flint I., Phoenix Islands (Rawaki, Manra, Orona, Birnie A., Nikomaroro, Kanton), Tamana, Banaba

North America

U.S.

The U.S. is all covered including Alaska

Alaska is in some parts only partially covered. Some highres areas (within lowres areas) are:

Canada

Canada is all covered

Puerto Rico

small Caribbean islands

South America

Argentina

Every province capital is covered, except Ushuaia.

Brazil


Chile

Colombia

All of Colombia has better resolution on Bing images than on LandSat or Yahoo, but especially detailed are:

For detailed information with regard to departments, see the Imagery and Data Sources page associated with the HOT response to the 2010 Colombia floods.

Guyana

(Cloud blocked: Goed Fortuin, Herstelling, Farm, South Mahaica/Cane Grove/Supply, Belvidere, Carlton Hall, Cane Grove)

Paraguay

Peru

Complete view: Relation.png 1308017 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

Suriname

Uruguay

Not Covered


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