[OAM-talk] Open Aerial Map Restart Meetup

[Jeffrey Johnson]

Some of these 'players' are the USGS and USDA. They generate tons of  
imagery which is public domain, but is poorly distributed.

Jeff

On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:39, Yves Moisan <yves.moisan at boreal-is.com> wrote:

>> In addition, if there were any "players" in the world that we might
>> want to get involved,
>
> 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.  But then
> again they may not be able to publish images they paid for ...
>
> There are also a bunch of aerial photos in university libraries.  I
> think the question is what are the organizations that have no  
> commercial
> interest in the aerial images they have (or own ?) ?
>
> I for one believe the real drawback to an OSM based map is the lack  
> of a
> hybrid view where one can toggle an image for background.  OSM+OAM  
> would
> be a very compelling solution.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> Yves
>
>
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