Another "sharpening-algorithm" for Bing aerials?

[kellerma]

Hi,

for big areas of germany Google(GlobalData?) and Bing(Intergraph?) have the same aerial provider: GeoContent.
It seems that nevertheless Google's pictures look sharper. Especially when the
tiles are only available til zoom z=17 (in JOSM: about 60 m) and you have to zoom in to 30 m
the artifacts grow fast with the actual (soft-)sharpening in JOSM enabled.

Would it be possible to have another sharpening-algorithm (more like Google's?)
to provide shaper pictures without (or at least - less) artifacts?

Thank you very much.

PS
On the downside Google's lakes are very "blue-ish", a feature which might be not so good to repeat ;-)

[bastiK]

If you provide example screenshots and a link to the location, this ticket might get more attention. :)

[kellerma]

soft-sharpen with artifacts

[kellerma]

And here's the link to google for comparison:
​http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=de&client=firefox-a&q=alfeld+91236&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=91236+Alfeld,+N%C3%BCrnberger+Land,+Bayern,+Deutschland&t=k&ll=49.437506,11.549721&spn=0.00181,0.004823&z=18

[Don-vip]

We now have a lot of imagery sources. You can simply use another one if Bing's not fine in your area.