Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Good news, everybody!

So today I started getting back some of my clearance authorisation request responses. I'll start listing who I've gotten clearance from when it becomes obvious to me that I'm allowed to do so. Right now, however, I've got one I can probably talk about, since their authorisation just requires me to follow some guidelines.

I now have clearance to use imagery from Bing Maps.

Now, some of you may be wondering "Why Bing Maps? Why not Google Maps? Or Yahoo Maps? Or Mapquest?" and, well, the answer is actually pretty simple. Bing maps, in my tests, has been the easiest to display and remain legible at NTSC resolutions. Since a lot of the time the maps have to be seen on screen, I need to make sure that things like state lines and roads are clearly visible. Bing Maps also provides me with very clearly identifiable route markers.

I'm not a shill or anything, I just need to make sure that the choices I make are the best ones for the film.

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