King 5 (NBC) in Seattle recently did a story about a rather precarious intersection which challenges the legality of tickets issued at a 5-way intersection via a camera system (RCW 46.63.170 basically states that camera systems are only legal for 4-way intersections). In order to really illustrate the intersection, King 5 used Bing Maps and more specifically Bird’s Eye imagery, to really bring the story to life. Check out this video to see how it was used.
Bing Maps is natively integrated into Curious / VizRT for you broadcast editors out there; however, King 5 upped the game a bit by using the Bird’s Eye photos to really make it shine.
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Hey Chris, I urgently need your help with Bing Maps.. I commented on a blog post you made almost a year ago: www.bing.com/.../rendering-static-virtual-earth-bird-s-eye-images.aspx
Regards
@dertannenbaum - sorry for not responding. I usually get some kind of email when someone posts. As for your request, unfortunately the images associate with Bird's Eye don't get any bigger (wider) than the image I provided. The images are taken as the plane flies over and since the plane is moving the images aren't naturally stitched together in a format that would be stitchable without lots of errors with buildings cutting into one another. The best you could do is a satellite image (ortho) to capture a greater area.
CP
Well, thanks for your answer :) The thing is, I need the image for a video we're creating for a visual fx course. So, it does not matter if there are artifacts, if the overall image is from the right perspective. I should even be able to eliminate most of the artifacts.
Unfortunately the satellite perspective would not work as well as Bird's Eye View - so my former request remains: How can I get that asp script working?
regards
WOW that is a crazy intersection! Would cause lots of crashes if they put something like that out here!
Thanks for the info
Very good read for Using Bird’s Eye on Broadcast.
