<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Russ Nelson <russ@cloudmade.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font><br>
> It's pretty dead. Combination of questionable copyright over the base <br>> data plus a lack of resources to really do it right.<br>> <br><span>> <a target="_blank" href="http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:tWX7VzUbGOsJ:openaerialmap.org/pipermail/talk_openaerialmap.org/2008-December/000055.html+http://openaerialmap.org/pipermail/talk_openaerialmap.org">http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:tWX7VzUbGOsJ:openaerialmap.org/pipermail/talk_openaerialmap.org/2008-December/000055.html+http://openaerialmap.org/pipermail/talk_openaerialmap.org</a></span><br>> /2008-December/000055.html+site:openaerialmap.org&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari<br><br>Whoa there!<br><br>Chris's message is a good summary of the state of things in December. Certainly that iteration of OAM is dead. The need remains, and there's a lot of interest in rearchitecting.<br><br>Ideas range from peer to peer tile caching networks, cloud
computing imagery processing, to simple indexes of distributed tile sources integrated in OpenLayers. <br>In my view, we need to spec out phases, each one easily doable without huge resource commitments.<br><br>We started a page on the OpenAerialMap wiki to capture ideas, and write out a spec. Please contribute!<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.openaerialmap.org/OAM_2009">http://wiki.openaerialmap.org/OAM_2009</a></span><br><br>-Mikel<br><br></div></div></div></body></html>