<div dir="ltr">Hi Oleksiy,<div>Thanks for all the links and materials. Lots of good points. Looking forward to reading through it.</div><div>All the best,</div><div>Dan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Oleksiy Muzalyev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch" target="_blank">oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 02/09/16 22:06, Dan Joseph wrote:<br>
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<div>The American Red Cross GIS Team is constantly looking for
new ways to improve our workflows and learn from the
OpenStreetMap and FOSS4G communities. The vast majority of the
GIS analysis and map making we do is done using FOSS4G tools
and we strive to be effective contributors as well as
consumers.</div>
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<div>We've supported the development of Portable OSM (POSM <<a href="https://github.com/AmericanRedCross/posm" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr>AmericanRedCross/posm</a>>
as an affordable (can be run on hardware costing less than
$300) solution to make OpenStreetMap, OpenMapKit, and Field
Papers available for deployments in connectivity-limited
environments. POSM consolidates cloud-based tools into a
portable server that acts as a temporary local data hub for
digital mapping, surveying, and field media collection.</div>
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<div>The next stage of development is working with the folks at
Stamen to incorporate OpenDroneMap (for processing UAV
imagery) into the stack of software available for installation
on a POSM. We'd love to hear your thoughts, concerns,
use-cases, and other comments. Send us an email or leave an
issue on the POSM GitHub repository <<a href="https://github.com/americanredcross/posm/issues" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr>americanredcross/posm/issues</a>>.</div>
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<div>- Dan Joseph</div>
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Hi Dan,<br>
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I use RPAS (remotely piloted aircraft systems) quite a lot for
aerial photography and videography, both multirotor and fixed-wing.
I fly in geographical regions for which there are orthorectified
images, so I make mostly oblique aerial photographs and aerial
videos. In Google Map there is a feature that one can see how many
times his uploaded images were viewed. So I uploaded some of them to
Google Maps to see if people are interested to view such oblique
aerial images in relation to a map location. The result is six
hundred aerial images were viewed more than seven million times
already [1]. So it seems there is an interest.<br>
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I also add aerial images and aerial videos to Wikipedia and then add
wikipedia tag to the OSM map [2].<br>
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The main issue with using a multirotor (quadcopter) for aerial
photography is that its range is only 2 - 3 kilometers. It takes
several hours to drive to an object and then it takes just twenty
minutes to film it from the air. There is already technology with
the long range of 40 and more kilometers, for example Dragonlink V3
[3]. For such a long range it would be already not a quad but a
fixed-wing aircraft, and electric glider.<br>
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Instead of long driving by car an electric glider could fly directly
to an object and make aerial images and video. Glider has got only
one motor and on a quiet day it does not even need it all the time,
just to climb, and then it can glide for a while without a motor.<br>
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But to pilot a long range RPAS one would need a special Permit for
the operation of drones without direct eye contact [4]. And to
obtain such a permit there should be an internal formal training and
internal certification. A pilot of long range RPAS must know
meteorology, weather patterns, know how to make defensive maneuvers
in case of a large bird attack (not to hurt a protected bird and not
to crash a RPAS), how to react to low flying manned aircraft, and
many other things.<br>
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Dragonlink V3 costs 336 USD, an electric glider with the wing span
of two or more meters capable to carry a GoPro (or better) camera
costs from 179.- USD [5]. So it is affordable and doable. With the
range of 40+ km the aerial photography becomes scalable, and it has
got a potential to change mapping. However, having a background in
civil aviation [6], I am aware that for successful safe operations
the formal training and certification are essential. Civil aviation
authorities of a country should see that this is a serious
organization, with a serious approach, otherwise no one will let us
into an airspace.<br>
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There is a special equipment for training readily available. For
example, popular Spektrum and Futaba radio controllers have got
wireless instructor-student link, so a student can pilot an RPAS
without any risk, as an instructor can take control any moment.<br>
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[1]
<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/101802068168905320382/photos/@46.4410425,16.1201149,6z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m3!8m2!3m1!1e1" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/maps/<wbr>contrib/101802068168905320382/<wbr>photos/@46.4410425,16.1201149,<wbr>6z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m3!8m2!3m1!<wbr>1e1</a><br>
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[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyon_Castle" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Nyon_Castle</a> (same video on youtube
<a href="https://youtu.be/GsSVZfiJFnA" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/GsSVZfiJFnA</a> )<br>
<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nyon-Castle-aerial-1.jpg" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/<wbr>wiki/File:Nyon-Castle-aerial-<wbr>1.jpg</a><br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi_fortress" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi_fortress</a>
(same video on youtube <a href="https://youtu.be/C-kQjmzlY7A" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/C-kQjmzlY7A</a> )<br>
<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akkerman-fortress-aerial-1.jpg" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/<wbr>wiki/File:Akkerman-fortress-<wbr>aerial-1.jpg</a><br>
etc.<br>
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[3] <a href="http://dragonlinkrc.com/" target="_blank">http://dragonlinkrc.com/</a><br>
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[4]
<a href="https://www.bazl.admin.ch/bazl/en/home/good-to-know%20/drones-and-aircraft-models/permits-for-the-operation-of-drones-without-direct-eye-contact-o.html" target="_blank">https://www.bazl.admin.ch/<wbr>bazl/en/home/good-to-know%20/<wbr>drones-and-aircraft-models/<wbr>permits-for-the-operation-of-<wbr>drones-without-direct-eye-<wbr>contact-o.html</a><br>
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<p>[5]
<a href="http://www.e-fliterc.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=EFL4750#home" target="_blank">http://www.e-fliterc.com/<wbr>Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=<wbr>EFL4750#home</a></p>
<p>[6] <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwIBJzM0u50qOXZ5bnFEZi1hTGM" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/open?<wbr>id=<wbr>0BwIBJzM0u50qOXZ5bnFEZi1hTGM</a></p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Oleksiy ( <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_(given_name)" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Alexis_(given_name)</a> )<br>
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