Suggestion: 45 degree imagery for GMM?

[Trey Daum]

Many of the areas that I have been working on have received 45 degree imagery in Google Maps. 

I would love to be able to use that imagery (along with the satellite imagery) in Map Maker. It seems like it would aid in drawing building baselines, paths, etc. 

I understand that the calibration may be somewhat off, but it seems worth it to me.

That's my suggestion. Thoughts?

[Will / NeoPhoenixTE]

By 45 degree imagery, you mean aerial views that aren't straight down like satellite view?

[djboge]

Yep, here's an example: http://goo.gl/5hjDX Just keep zooming in and it will switch.

[Wthrwyz]

Totally agree.  Most of the 45° imagery I've seen is pretty well-aligned to the corresponding satellite image, so it would be a huge help in drawing polygons to see things at a different angle.  This would especially hold true in places where the standard image is almost directly vertical or very grainy and it is nearly impossible to determine where building baselines are due to roof overhangs.

[djboge]

Yep, I can definitely see it helping when you're doing building edits, not so much that it helps align vertices or anything, but at least you can zoom right in and see if what looks like a roof might be an overhang or something, instead of having to switch over to Maps to check it out.

[Kyle Polansky]

I agree with you on this idea. I'm currently trying to edit a location where I'm staying, but the "flat" satellite imagery is out of date. The 45 imagery is much more recent. Here's a link to the area I'm referring to: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=44.96769,-93.346463&spn=0.00482,0.009645&t=h&z=17

[rjhintz]

Try Bing

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Rich

[Flash]

Bing in Canada is horribly out of date.  They only recently added aerials, and for my city the aerials at first weren't of my area, which was pretty obvious as we are along the US-Canada border so there was a sudden change it topography at the border.  They finally have proper aerials and obiques; but from my job we have been able to date them to 2007, based on what new construction we can and cannot find.  They are pretty well useless.

[fhdogs]

45 degree imagery would be great, but I'd much rather have high res imagery that I can zoom all the way in on first! ;)

;)

[Gman]

Well compared to satellite imagery, 45 degree aerials are high res. The added detail is very useful!

I'd love to see this in GMM also, instead of having another tab open with Google Maps 45deg showing the same area.

WebGL GMM would be nice as well, WebGL maps seems to run a bit faster/smoother, along with the addition of 3D.

[Gman]

I found this thread from search, but I have no idea what forum it belongs to, I don't see it in the General Map Maker forum. Just out of curiosity, and this probably sounds like a strange question, but what forum is this?

[rjhintz]

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!categories/google-mapmaker 

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Rich

[Gman]

Thanks! What's odd is that when I click on that link, then press the back to categories button (left of red new topic button) it brings me to this main menu  https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/google-mapmaker

and this main menu doesn't seem to provide a link back to the forum.

[Saikrishna Arcot]

This is the General Map Maker forum. The link Rich gave you above is for the Groups interface. If you want the Sites interface, it's here. End result, it's the same content, so you can access it from whichever link you want.

[Rob]

I've been wondering about this too, i think it would definitely help with drawing accurate boundaries, etc.