How do i find out the date (year is enough) of satellite imagery (for Aerial and Birds Eye vew) on Bing Maps?

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How do i find out the date (year is enough) of satellite imagery (for Aerial and Birds Eye vew) on Bing Maps? The location is in Kalamaria-Thessaloniki-Greece 40.586893, 22.947830

Answer 1

@EVANGELIA-3302

Thanks for reaching out to us! It seems you want to get the capture date of a specific location.

Bing Maps keeps only one set of imagery, and it is stitched together like a blanket that wraps the earth. This means all imagery has a date range, not a date and as noted, as you mentioned, you want a year, but in the response, Bing Maps can only provide a range, sometimes, it may be across a year.

One way to get this information is when browsing bing.com maps. If you enable the developer tools in your browser, you can find the "x-ve-tilemeta-capturedatesrange" tag in the response headers with a tile date range. For example: https://t.ssl.ak.tiles.virtualearth.net/tiles/a... Headers: x-ve-tilemeta-capturedatesrange 8/18/2014-8/18/2014

My testing screenshot -

In case you need more information for this meta data -

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bingmaps/rest-services/imagery/imagery-metadata

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Yutong

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