[OAM-talk] Open Aerial Map Restart Meetup

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/11 Yves Moisan <yves.moisan at boreal-is.com>:
> Who are those players who would want to provide their own high res
> aerial images to a service like OAM instead of waiting for Google to
> update their area?  All levels of government (maybe especially
> cities ??) are the most obvious such players IMO because they do not
> normally have a commercial interest in keeping their data for
> themselves.  They don't sell their images; they use them.

Actually in Germany or Italy they do sell these images, especially
cities, and they are all but cheap.
What about the US military? They are expected to have nice quality
pics of many parts of the world. If they are hosting such an event,
maybe they can think of releasing some more imagery in PD? ;-)

cheers,
Martin