<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 15 Sep 2009, at 16:09, Brian Prangle wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Peter<br><br>I am very keen to keep the momentum up on this - we already have £1000 from the Regional Development Agency which OSMF should have invoiced. Thanks for your very generous offer - I'll get to work on the wiki. We have feelers out within the City Council for potential funding but we have not yet got a concerted campaign going with a definite goal of a defined sum that we can present to potential donors.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Good stuff. Possibly the next step is to get a firm price for while you will need a kml file and the we can have a proper appeal to get required approx £2,500.</div><div><br></div><div>You might be able to buy it from Emap in theUSA or the European distributor in Rome that Simone Cortesi has already spoken to in the past re the Gaza Strip photography. I have copied this email to him to see if he could help again with sourcing it from Rome which would be best given that it is being purchased from within Europe.</div><br><blockquote type="cite">I'll also get the WM guys to look at hosting - anybody know what specs of server size/bandwidth we'd be looking at? We should aim at building in the cost of hosting into our appeal.<br></blockquote><div><br></div>I am keen that we set something up that can handle more imagery over time. There are evidently discussions going on about a shed-load of 10cm photography for another part of the UK and ITO is also planning to offer funding support for some satellite photography to support mapping in some other (smaller) urban areas in the UK, so let's plan something that will continue to work as more imagery arrives.</div><div><br></div><div>OAM isn't quite the correct place for this because the imagery is still (c) even if we have rights to derive mapping from it. Simone Cortesi organised hosting for the Gaza Strip photography - possibly he could help us out or offer us some advice.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <br>Regards<br><br>Brian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/15 Peter Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter.miller@itoworld.com">peter.miller@itoworld.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"><br> On 15 Sep 2009, at 09:06, Brian Prangle wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi everyone<br> <br> With all the talk-traffic on GB it's probably time we gave some thought on how to progress our campaign to get aerial photography for the City Centre. I'm not convinced that the Stratford method is going to be useful.<br> </blockquote> <br></div> Agreed, it has be useful to try the approach but the rectification may be a challenge and it won't work near major airports etc. It was fun to give it a try given the proximity of the flight company. I think we should it use commercial photography already rectified where this is available.<div class="im"> <br> <br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Without a concerted campaign to raise funds ( and to know precisely what we're after) the money already raised is going to languish (Andy have we invoiced and received any money yet?). I've got one more potential avenue to raise some cash ( my ex-CEO who also owns an aviation business)<br> </blockquote> <br></div> The cost of basic satellite photography is $14 per sq km. The US exchange rate has moved considerably in our favour over the past four months so this is now about £10 and the cost of the whole West Midlands conurbation would probably be about £4-5K I seem to remember. I have been in email communication with eMap in the states over the past few weeks. A deduction for a charitable purchase has also been mentioned.<br> <br> As you know I am keen that we make more use of photography. If you want to do this then make the appeal known and I will help promote it. I would be happy to contribute £750 which would need to go via a charitable partner which I would be happy to arrange for you (this is me not ITO btw). My only condition would be that there was a plan prepared to host it and make use of it. I suggest that the OSMF should actually make the purchase and own the results unless you have a better idea.<br> <br> There is general information here:<br> <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aerial_photography_funding_appeals" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aerial_photography_funding_appeals</a><br> <br> If you are keen to progress this then say so and lets use the wiki page to gather pledges.<br> <br> <br> <br> Regards,<br> <br> <br> <br> Peter<br> <br> <br> <br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> Regards<br> <br> Brian<br> _______________________________________________<br> Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands</a><br> </blockquote> <br> </blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>