<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>Really excited about this initiative. While I'm not able to join the call, I hope to participate in future calls. In the meantime, I've been doing some work on the "Humanitarian UAV" side, which may be of interest:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://uaviators.org/" target="_blank">http://uaviators.org</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://uaviators.org/map" target="_blank">http://uaviators.org/map</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://uaviators.org/advisors" target="_blank">http://uaviators.org/advisors</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>And on crowdsourcing the analysis of <i>aerial</i> imagery with MicroMappers.org, e.g.:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/30/opinion/sutter-wildlife-crowdsource" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/30/opinion/sutter-wildlife-crowdsource</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I'd love to explore ways to connect with and draw on your important work.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!<br>Patrick</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial"><div dir="ltr">---</div><div dir="ltr">@: <a href="https://twitter.com/PatrickMeier" target="_blank">PatrickMeier</a> (PhD)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Blog: <a href="http://www.irevolutions.org/" target="_blank">iRevolutions.org</a> (1.5M hits) <div>Book: <a href="http://www.digital-humanitarians.com/" target="_blank">Digital-Humanitarians.com</a></div><div>Newsletter: <a href="http://eepurl.com/9O7Y9" target="_blank">Digital Humanitarians</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:50 AM, Cristiano Giovando <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cristiano.giovando@hotosm.org" target="_blank">cristiano.giovando@hotosm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello HOTties and OSMers,<br>
<br>
Sorry for cross-posting. I'm writing to let you know about the Open<br>
Aerial Map (OAM) project and inviting anyone who is interested to join<br>
us at the kickoff meeting this Thursday, January 22nd, 18:00UTC on IRC<br>
[1].<br>
<br>
OAM was conceptualized back in 2007 as a global catalog and repository<br>
of open aerial imagery. Think of OSM but for imagery data. The idea is<br>
to build a system where data can be uploaded in raw georeferenced<br>
format and then made accessible through a tile server layer or OGC<br>
WMS/WCS. The imagery can be contributed by anyone from an individual<br>
drone mapper to a satellite image provider. OAM is then available to<br>
HOT, the OSM community and anyone needing it for tracing or analysis.<br>
<br>
Please join us on the OAM list [2] and looking forward to talking to<br>
some of you on Thursday.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Cristiano<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.oftc.net/hot" target="_blank">https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.oftc.net/hot</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/hotosm.org/forum/?hl=en#!forum/openaerialmap" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/a/hotosm.org/forum/?hl=en#!forum/openaerialmap</a><br>
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From: Cristiano Giovando <<a href="mailto:cristiano.giovando@hotosm.org">cristiano.giovando@hotosm.org</a>><br>
Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:15 PM<br>
Subject: Re: [talk-oam] OAM Pre-Project Sprint<br>
To: <a href="mailto:openaerialmap@hotosm.org">openaerialmap@hotosm.org</a><br>
<br>
<br>
After talking to Blake we decided to host this initial brainstorming<br>
session on Thursday, January 22 at 18:00 UTC [1] . It will be on the<br>
HOT IRC channel [2], anyone is welcome to join.<br>
<br>
I will send a reminder tomorrow and a list of ideas to start with for<br>
our discussion.<br>
<br>
Please forward to anyone who may be interested.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Cristiano<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OAM+Brainstorming&iso=20150122T18" target="_blank">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OAM+Brainstorming&iso=20150122T18</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.oftc.net/hot" target="_blank">https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.oftc.net/hot</a><br>
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Stephen Mather<br>
<<a href="mailto:stephen@smathermather.com">stephen@smathermather.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Cristiano,<br>
><br>
> Definitely interested in the direction and success of OAM.<br>
><br>
> Best,<br>
> Steve<br>
><br>
> On Jan 20, 2015 3:14 PM, "Blake Girardot" <<a href="mailto:bgirardot@gmail.com">bgirardot@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Hi Cristiano,<br>
>><br>
>> Welcome aboard!<br>
>><br>
>> It is really encouraging to have someone with your experience head up this<br>
>> project.<br>
>><br>
>> I am available anytime this week for the most part except during the<br>
>> Communications Working Group meeting, which is at 20:00UTC on Friday.<br>
>><br>
>> Cheers,<br>
>> Blake<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On 1/20/2015 1:00 AM, Cristiano Giovando wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hello everyone,<br>
>>><br>
>>> I recently joined HOT [1] to lead the efforts of developing Open Aerial<br>
>>> Map. It is really exciting to see that this project got eventually<br>
>>> funded [2] and I look forward to working with the community to make it<br>
>>> happen.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Let's start discussing ideas for its development here on this list<br>
>>> before reaching out to involve other groups that might be interested as<br>
>>> well. The plan is to make the process as open, collaborative and agile<br>
>>> as possible, so that anyone who is interested can join and enjoy the<br>
>>> final product.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I would like to propose a pre-project brainstorming session to collect<br>
>>> everyone's ideas and start to identify priority requirements. Anyone<br>
>>> interested, please reply to the list and let us know your preference in<br>
>>> UTC time for an IRC session this week.<br>
>>><br>
>>> As some of you may already know, there have been multiple efforts of<br>
>>> creating an OAM in the past. Some notes and code from these previous<br>
>>> projects can be found on GitHub [3], [4] and OSGeo [5]. I believe that<br>
>>> by 2015, with drones becoming commodity products and aerial imagery<br>
>>> being always more available, there is greater motivation to make this<br>
>>> project finally happen.<br>
>>><br>
>>> The objective is to have a working OAM prototype by mid-year.<br>
>>> Considering that some code was already developed during previous<br>
>>> implementation attempts and that similar open source projects already<br>
>>> exist, every effort should be made to maximize integration of these<br>
>>> resources.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Looking forward to a fruitful discussion!<br>
>>><br>
>>> Cheers,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Cristiano<br>
>>><br>
>>> [1] <a href="http://hot.openstreetmap.org/cristiano_joins_hot" target="_blank">http://hot.openstreetmap.org/cristiano_joins_hot</a><br>
>>> [2] <a href="http://www.humanitarianinnovation.org/large-project/OpenAerialMap" target="_blank">http://www.humanitarianinnovation.org/large-project/OpenAerialMap</a><br>
>>> [3] <a href="https://github.com/oam/oam" target="_blank">https://github.com/oam/oam</a><br>
>>> [4] <a href="https://dodobas.github.io/OpenAerialMap/" target="_blank">https://dodobas.github.io/OpenAerialMap/</a><br>
>>> [5] <a href="http://oam.osgeo.org/" target="_blank">http://oam.osgeo.org/</a><br>
>>><br>
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<br>
--<br>
Cristiano Giovando<br>
Technical Project Manager<br>
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team<br>
<a href="mailto:cristiano.giovando@hotosm.org">cristiano.giovando@hotosm.org</a><br>
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