[OAM-talk] starting to map with small UAV

[Hugo Meiland]

Hi all,

I've been playing around for a long time with model airplanes and both 
openstreetmap and openaerialmap got me interested into combining this 
hobby with some fun web stuff.

What I would like to do is to make a detailed set of aerial pictures and 
a map available of a nearby strip of dunes. For this I have made some 
'manual' flights with a strapped-on digital camera to see what the 
results could be. Now I am building a larger plane which should be 
flying with an autopilot to allow more controlled height and straight lines.

As far as I know the following steps I should be taking is to:
- combine the images into a larger image and
- then to orthorectify that image.
- once that is done, geodata should be attached to the image, and
- I should be able to store this in a WMS
- and create tiles from the to serve to e.g. openlayers

Am I correct in the above workflow, or missing steps?


thanks!

Hugo