Just realised its actually a lot of London, just hope no-one with OCD and no experience logs on to WME or there will be a meltdown of the London maps

Yeah I was looking at that, but was struggling to work out the entire range via my remote desktop connection so was waiting til I got home, but you beat me to it

iainhouse wrote:These images are misaligned for Google Earth and Google Maps - we're just collateral damage.

It looks like Google's solution was to increase the transparency of the mapped roads so they are not so apparent when zoomed in close enough to see the actual right of way.

Google have refused to correct this issue, saying "10 meters offset is considered normal" and they won't fix the area. So once again we have to come up with our own solution.

Introducing the WME Aerial Auto Shifter for Greater London!

Any editor who frequently or occasionally edits anywhere near London should have this installed!

That's right on the boundary of Greater London. If you zoom out a bit, you can see the yellow line, and the subtle change in shading of the aerials imagery which don't match. You'll have to be careful of the alignment just outside the yellow boundary.

Updated script - see this new thread for details.

Certainly seems to have happened in the last 12-14 hours, as I was working on some URs over in west London at around 10-11pm last night and also had to use the script to align the aerials with reality.

I've been randomly panning around different bits of London, and as of about 10 minutes ago it seems as if pretty much everything I'm looking at has the correct offset. There might be the odd tiny patch here and there (e.g. the infamous Westminster Bridge - though *only* the bridge, the approach roads look OK now) where things are off, but it does appear that the update has the intention of fixing the offset across the whole of the affected area.

What I have noticed is that the few patches of misaligment I've noticed today all seem to correspond with bridges, which makes me think these are georectification artifacts rather than areas which haven't yet been through the correction process at all.

D'oh!