[OAM-talk] Open Aerial Map Restart Meetup

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:43:14PM +0100, Laurence Penney wrote:
> 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.)

It was designed into the database schema, but nothing was ever done with
it.

> 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.

That was part of the original design, specifically for things like 
diydrones and other drone or low-altitude aerial photography.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer