[OAM-talk] Open Aerial Map Restart Meetup

[Jeffrey Johnson]

In the US at least, NAIP would make for a good base dataset.

On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:34, Christopher Schmidt  
<crschmidt at crschmidt.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:18:32AM -0700, MilesTogoe wrote:
>> On 08/11/2009 10:27 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>>> I concur. The largest obstacle here in infrastructure. I have  
>>> recently
>>> completed processing and tiling 10s of TB of imagery for DoD and  
>>> just
>>> moving that amount of data around is costly and complicated, let  
>>> alone
>>> trying to serve it.
>>>
>>> Amazon has indicated they would be willing to help us with this kind
>>> of project, but I agree that a distributed registry approach makes  
>>> the
>>> most sense in the short/medium term, and think we should focus our
>>> efforts there.
>>
>> I also think it is a good idea to distribute the server data  
>> regionally
>> to spread the storage requirements.  Also what about the idea of  
>> using
>> NASA data that is in World Wind ?  Not sure if it is totally free  
>> in use
>> but it could provide a "base" set of aerials just like the Tiger  
>> files
>> provide a base set of roads in OSM.
>
> There's a lot of different bases there. Landsat data is global 15m  
> data.  Blue
> Marble is a commonly used 'world scale' map, decent down to 1:1M  
> scale, etc.
> You'll probably need to be more specific about which NASA dataset  
> you're
> talking about.
>
> OAM had both blue marble, and an i-Cubed colorized landsat dataset,  
> as its
> two main bases.
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>> On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:16, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> 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.
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