OAM Initial Software Stack

First Principles (Draft Ideas)

We will use free and open-source software. This is non-negotiable.
That said, we are practical. We will read proprietary formats, though we will write to open formats. We can act as a translator from closed to open.
We will follow open standards.
We will make it possible to let commercial vendors build servers that can serve as an OAM node (like ESRI Image Server), so long as it support the underlying API and makes data available. Options for people who want to stand up their own node without license costs.
It should not cost money to get access to open data.
As software matures, we should have APIs and protocols to open another node. Or you can take standards and API to integrate commercial software.
A good metric for open: is all this work repeatable? In other words, can complete OpenAerialMap servers be stood up in multiple locations, with identical or different datasets, without requiring any software purchases or license fees? The answer to that question must be Yes.