Hi(gh)!

On 07.03.2016 08:53, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 7-3-2016 2:25, Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann wrote:
>> Hi(gh)!
>>
>> After having really messed up my code I realized that it was quite
>> unreasonable to start with building the Kabul airport tower from a photo
>> of its uppermost storey. Instead, I first would assemble a
>> high-resolution aerial mosaic of the Kabul area (Google Maps tiles at
>> about 0.25 metres/pixel), to gauge the the outline dimensions of
>> buildings, streets etc.
>>
>
> That's not an unreasonable way of going forward.
>
>
Update: as Google Map's Terms of Use do not allow "mass downloading" 
(however this is defined) of image tiles, to avoid lawsuits when finally 
putting POVghanistan on the Internet, I now tend to use bing.com's API 
for Open Street Map to work out buildings' and vegetation elements' 
positions!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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