Satellite imagery in Japan

Posted by PlaneMad on 11/6/2015

Japanese version by user:nyampire

The default Bing imagery for Japan is poorly orthorectified throughout the country. Here we see some sections of the Shin-Tomei Expressway where the distortions are very clear.

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The correct imagery to use in Japan for tracing is from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) and the tileurl is http://cyberjapandata.gsi.go.jp/xyz/ort/{z}/{x}/{y}.jpg which can be used with source=GSImaps/ort

Spotted while correcting roads in Japan. Join the task to realign the data here: http://tasks.teachosm.org/project/104