<div dir="ltr"><div>Agree drones have legalities. It is the full responsibility of the
pilot operator to adhere to all laws and regulations, and determine if it's a
commercial flight or not. I'm familiar with Australian drone
legislation, but other countries in Oceania will have their own drone rules to
operate under.</div><div><br></div><div>However unless you're in NSW
with DCS Imagery, a lot of other state and country aerial imagery comes
from Bing as the highest quality currently available, which can be hard
to determine capture date. Having the compute power available in the
community to convert pilot's open source JPG sequences into orthorectified
imagery would provide a new source of community-derived current aerial imagery. As we can see with the OpenAerialMap project, there's very few contributors currently in our region <a href="https://map.openaerialmap.org/">https://map.openaerialmap.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Loan equipment programs in other OSM regions charge a small fee to renters. It is used for cost-recovery for the equipment shipping, return, and other overheads.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 at 13:37, Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com" target="_blank">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Drones are not allowed in many areas.
And they bug the hell out of me :) So I'd be very carefull with
that one. <br>
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<div>Yes it would be nice to have some
hardware .. but getting to others and then getting it from them to
the next can be an issue - Australia is a big place. Aus Post can
be used.. but the packing needs to be able to withstand dropping
at least. Don't want it sitting on someones shelf either. <br>
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<div>On 13/7/21 12:59 pm, Brendan Barnes
wrote:<br>
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<div>Suggestions:</div>
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<div>Loanable equipment such as high-precision handheld GPS
units for GPS traces, and Waylens or 360 degree cameras for
KartaView image sequences. Similar to the equipment loan
program in Europe <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GPS_Units_for_Loan" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GPS_Units_for_Loan</a></div>
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<div>Hardware for a loanable KartaView rig project, such as a
"trekking-style" backpack for OSM hikers, or a HD
multi-camera, high-precision GPS car rig.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Funding to help secure more OSM hardware hosting sponsors
in the region. Currently we only have two Tile Servers, and
they are both located in Melbourne, Australia.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Drone mapping infrastructure, such as a community Open
Drone Map cloud server, to process orthorectified aerial
imagery.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 at 17:32,
Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-au <<a href="mailto:talk-au@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-au@openstreetmap.org</a>>
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<div>9 Jul 2021, 03:06 by <a href="mailto:eneerhut@gmail.com" target="_blank">eneerhut@gmail.com</a>:</div>
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<li>Funding for OSM related software development<br>
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<div dir="auto">What about projects that are not <br>
</div>
<div dir="auto">targeting specifically Oceania needs but</div>
<div dir="auto">as useful elsewhere?<br>
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<div dir="auto"><br>
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<div dir="auto">Is it going to be lower priority, with <br>
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<div dir="auto">Oceania-focused project having a clear</div>
<div dir="auto">preference?<br>
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<div dir="auto">Or is it not useful to even propose them?</div>
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