[OAM-talk] Open Aerial Map Restart Meetup

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 01:16:53PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> writes:
> 
> > Agenda
> > =====
> > 1. discover current hosting and hardware details.
> > 2. establish future hosting and hardware requirements and wish list.
> > ...
> > n. meet in person, raise toasts.
> 
> We should heed crschmidt's message.  The amount of data is vast.
> Besides a registry of where data is, a federated approach could include
> having parts of the imagery hosted in various places.  I could see a few
> people in mass getting together to host massgis orthophotos, and other
> regions doing that too.  Using the OSM model, the goal would be to have
> the overall structure and indices, and also available tools to enable
> others to host parts of the entire dataset with minimal effort.

Note that MassGIS *already* hosts their own orthos via a GeoServer WMS.
Other state agencies may as well -- and I feel that a federated approach
where people work with state agencies to publish their data via WMS or
other means is much more likely to be effective in the long term than a 
centralized, 'one big st of tiles' approach -- not to mention that it's
a task that more people can participate in working towards.


Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer