[OAM-talk] OAM Wiki

[Christopher Lippitt]

Hi Chris,
I agree completely. The current form of the Wiki is a product of the biases
of the people who have been contributing so far. There are a bunch of us
that work in that area. I agree that OAM should serve a very broad role and
should include all types of imagery. I definitely agree about reorienting
the wiki.

Chris

On Nov 27, 2007 7:34 PM, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>
wrote:

> Currently, the OAM wiki has a couple of problems which make it rather
> confusing to me as a newcomer.
>
> The wiki seems to be entirely concentrated on drone/diy plane style
> image capture and processing. I think that many of the imagery sources
> for OAM may well be government agencies who are willing or able to share
> their imagery with the project, and indeed, much of the imagery thus far
> available is public domain datasets.
>
> I think that the wiki should be organized to take this into account,
> with the information that the DIY aerial photograph people are needing
> being one subsection of a larger effort.
>
> However, the homepage of the project itself says something slightly
> counter to this:
>
> """
> [OpenAerialMap] exists to provide a freely available image map of the
> world created solely by community contribution.
> """
>
> I'd like to confirm that it is the understanding of this gruop that
> government collected data which is free for reuse without restriction
> should be allowed to play a role in the OpenAerialMap vision. (I'm
> almost positive that the general consensus on this is "Yes", but wanted
> to confirm.)
>
> If that is the case, and the vision I have put forward -- using widely
> available government collected data where it makes sense -- is
> acceptable, then I'd then like to know if there's any obvious problems
> with the wiki being rearranged to be slightly more conducive to this --
> especially so as to not scare off new contributors.
>
> I think that the best thing in the world for everyone would be if OAM
> could be seen as a place where governments and other organizations can
> share their imagery with the world without the need to worry about
> hosting or setting up a web service. They simply create datarecords,
> upload the imagery, and are done. There's clearly some way to go yet
> before that vision is reached, but I want to make sure that
> OpenAerialMap is an acceptable place to pursue this vision.
>
> I'm going to start cleaning up the wiki: some of the pages that are
> stubs on there seem like they're more 'leading the answer' than actually
> being useful, so cleaning up empty sections and the like seems important
> to me. Since it's a wiki, I'm sure that if my changes are seen as being
> negative, people will be willing to revert them :)
>
> Looking forward to hearing everyone's opinions,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
>
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Christopher D. Lippitt
SDSU-UCSB Joint Doctoral Student
Department of Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060
Email: lippitt at geog.ucsb.edu
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