Resolving Bing Aerial zoom disparities

Question

Hi we're an enterprise Bing imagery customer. The imagery appears very different at different zoom levels, especially around level 14+ where satellite imagery gives way to aerial imagery.

My question is, does Bing offer an imagery set where the lower zooms are entirely derived from the maximum zoom level? In other words, if Bing maximum zoom is about level 20, then an imagery set where each level 19 tile is derived from the four lower level 20 tiles, and each level 18 tile is derived from the four lower level 19 tiles, etc.. Such a dataset would of course look perfectly smooth when zooming, i.e. without all the hard visual jumps in quality, tone, etc. that occur.

Regards
BW

Answer 1

The fast answer is no and that is "By design". The longer answer is related to the color issue you mention. While a solution like you describe might resolve the vertical break between L13 and L14, it would introduce horizontal breaks at < L14 because the L14+ imagery is also not perfectly color-balanced worldwide. The result would be visually worse at lower zoom levels where wider areas of imagery can be seen.