[OAM-talk] Open Aerial Map Restart Meetup

[Laurence Penney]

On 12 Aug 2009, at 00:30, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> ... OAM was started exactly to be one monolithic mosaic, as an
> 'open' alternative to Google Maps satellite imagery, nothing more.
> (The fact that the project grew to have so many people thinking that  
> it
> was 'meant to' do so many things is evidence of the people in terested
> havd a wide variety of varied interests, not that the project itself,
> insofar as it exists as a seperate entity, had those goals at its
> inception.)

Was time intended to be handled in OAM? (Google Earth has: 24 sets of  
San Francisco 1946-2007; 7 sets of Berlin 2000-2006; 9 sets of London  
1999-2006.)

I've been toying with the idea of starting up a service where single  
aerial photographs can be uploaded, or just referenced, along with  
"view" data and approximate timestamp. Depending on how accurately  
people set up their views, we could get pretty good temporal coverage  
of places that have been considered interesting for decades.

This is something out of the scope of OAM, I think, but viewers -  
especially those with 3D capability wanting to behave like Google  
Earth or Photosynth - might like to incorporate both types of imagery.

Thoughts?

- L