Template talk:Mapit-US-buildingscale
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There are a few quirks to Mapit templates at building scale. First of all, the standard aerial photos don't work at this resolution. However, in some cities (notably san francisco, which is the main place I've tested the templates so far) there is a different data set that does go down to building scale resolution, so I've made that dataset the default for this template.
Also, the topo maps don't look very good at building scale (not designed for that resolution), so I've made the scale for topo the same here as for the streetscale template.
Using the bigger streetscale for the aerial photos might be a better default approach for the aerial photos too if it turns out that the high res data set has poor coverage. We'll see; I now know that it doesn't seem to cover NYC or Boston, making streetscale a better choice for those locations for now.
[edit] Seems to have coverage with high res, color aerial dataset
- San Francisco
- Chicago
- DC
[edit] Doesn't
- All non-urban areas
- New York City
- Boston
[edit] Discussion (the real talk)
Adding another template (with streetscale aerial and buildingscale Mapquest) would be overkill, I think. I think just make the buildingscale template have streetscale aerial and topographical. —msh210 22:44, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- I agree making more templates is not ideal. What about just using buildingscale when there is appropriate data and using streetscale when there isn't?
