Bing Maps updated satellite imagery of all of County Wexford.

IrlJidel

I've noticed that Bing have recently updated their satellite imagery in Wexford.

Entire county is included at high resolution

http://binged.it/tvVZ36

Anyone have any ideas of what time period imagery might have been taken at?

vicwatson

IrlJidel wrote: »

I've noticed that Bing have recently updated their satellite imagery in Wexford.

Entire county is included at high resolution

http://binged.it/tvVZ36

Anyone have any ideas of what time period imagery might have been taken at?

Time period of the day or of the year?

IrlJidel

vicwatson wrote: »

Time period of the day or of the year?

Roughly how long ago - eg June/July 2010

vicwatson

The long shadows are indicating that the sun is low in the sky, and the sunlight direction implies the sun is in South-South East direction which tallies with this being around November 2010 I reckon. There are pockets of frost there on close inspection suggesting there was a hard frost but by the time the sun is where it is in the sky (about 11.00 a.m.)the majority of the frost is gone. Most trees have lost their leaves too by the looks.

So I reckon it's November 2010, about 11.00 a.m.

Don't ask me the day !:D:D

RadioRetro

The images were taken this year, if you look at the car park you access off King Street (link below) you can see it's empty and there's fencing across it. That was during the construction of the ramp down from the Bride Street car park which is visible. It was finished before the summer. Also, the container offices for the construction of a building across the road are visible in the Bride Street car park on the left.

http://binged.it/uTkRvR

topnotch

Looks like a Sunday morning in November

EASYNEWS

Mid October

vicwatson

topnotch wrote: »

Looks like a Sunday morning in November

Why Sunday ?

topnotch

There just isnt any activity around schools or factories etc for that time in the morning 9/10 for it to be a week day. also a few activities taking place would be more likely at weekend.

a soccer game
http://binged.it/v4IsZE
Mass
http://binged.it/tGRbqg
and dirt bikes?
http://binged.it/vMNaWt

It could be a Saturday but the streets and roads are deserted.

RadioRetro

topnotch wrote: »

It could be a Saturday but the streets and roads are deserted.

Nah, you're right, it's a Sunday morning. The vast majority of Wexford Football League games are played on Sunday morning or early afternoon. The link you provided is St.Joseph's pitch.

vicwatson

So OP

It's October/November 2010 Sunday a.m. 11.00a.m.

Why you wanna know

IrlJidel

vicwatson wrote: »

So OP

It's October/November 2010 Sunday a.m. 11.00a.m.

Why you wanna know

I originally just wanted a rough idea of date of imagery - ie Autumn 2010.

My main interest in this imagery is using it to map Wexford on OpenStreetMap, which is a free user-contributed map of the world.

You can see a map of Wexford town here: http://osm.org/go/es48dtap--

I grew up in Wexford but dont live there any more so wanted to know roughly how up to date the imagery is and hence its usefulness for updating OpenStreetMap.

It's mad how you've narrowed it down that it was probably a Sunday morning! Thanks everyone.

topnotch

It would be possible to work out the exact day and time if you were prepared to spend some time digging away at it.

Its just a matter of narrowing the days down further.

There is a train parked at Rosslare europort, low tide, mass times etc.
Not every Sunday would have been this sunny.

RadioRetro

vicwatson wrote: »

So OP

It's October/November 2010 Sunday a.m. 11.00a.m.

No, early 2011. See my post above. The car park ramp and building on Bride Street were only constructed in the year just gone (the building was only finished a few weeks ago).

topnotch

there may be different sections joined together.

It is unlikely that silage pits would be this full in January.

http://binged.it/se4xVO
http://binged.it/rLRvmA
Also also look at all the winter tillage crops planted.
http://binged.it/uVCsI8

vicwatson

RadioRetro wrote: »

No, early 2011. See my post above. The car park ramp and building on Bride Street were only constructed in the year just gone (the building was only finished a few weeks ago).

No. After summer as my holiday home only had shed built in summer.

As topnotch said. Could be a case of splicing the maps together and therefore different areas are different times of the year.

Supertech

Castlebridge area is certainly late 2011 (end of October I'd guess)

IrlJidel

Looking at some metadata when I fetch a bing imagery tile it reports the image capture date as 6th Nov 2011 which was a ................... Sunday!

Very surprised imagery was made available so quickly. Great sleuthing everybody.

vicwatson

And here is the Weather Data for that day ! See the key one - -2.2degrees at grass level, hence the frost.

Daily Data

Weather Station Data - From 02/01/2011 to 01/01/2012

Please Select a Station and Date from the menu on the right.

REPORTS FROM JOHNSTOWN CASTLE (A) Date Rainfall
(mm) Max
Temp
(°C) Min
Temp
(°C) Grass Min Temp
(°C) Mean Wind Speed (knots) Gusts
(if >= 34 knots) Sunshine
(hours) 6/11/2011 0.1 11.5 3 -2.2 3.3

michael196

IrlJidel wrote: »

Looking at some metadata when I fetch a bing imagery tile it reports the image capture date as 6th Nov 2011 which was a ................... Sunday!

Very surprised imagery was made available so quickly. Great sleuthing everybody.

yep, the car in my drive was purchased in july 2011 so had to be post july and a tree was in autumn color in the garden, again pointing towards november 2011.

topnotch

about 9am i would reckon based on lack of traffic and train at rosslare doesnt leave till 9:40

EmatoelDiablo

RadioRetro wrote: »

No, early 2011. See my post above. The car park ramp and building on Bride Street were only constructed in the year just gone (the building was only finished a few weeks ago).

As far as I can see, Pettit's is also done up which would help your argument of it being 2011.

Also I can see the construction in Summerhill is Finished.

RadioRetro

I now agree that it is late last year. Looking again at the car park I've been wittering on about, the new ramp looks finished and all construction equipment removed so it is late 2011.

poppy123

I had a look at where I live and there was a house that burned down near me on halloween. It shows the site cleared so the pics in this area anyway have been taken since then. I also think from looking at stuff around my house that they were taken pre december. So after halloween and before december.

perrier

Kilimuckridge area is late 2011 as my house was only finished in December. The image has a shed beside the house which we bought in September.

vicwatson

In summation - it's Sunday 6th November 2011 at aprx 10.30/11.00 a.m

Da daah !

Menapians

Supertech wrote: »

Castlebridge area is certainly late 2011 (end of October I'd guess)

Ya my work van is in my yard in Ballymurn and i only got that the last week in October 2011