[Osmf-talk] seeking funding ideas

Gervase Markham gerv at gerv.net
Mon Feb 22 22:38:32 UTC 2010


On 22/02/10 09:43, Mikel Maron wrote:
> * Humanitarian OSM Team organizational build up
> * aerial imagery fund

I think you could combine these two ideas. What if we had money set
aside such that, next time there's an earthquake, we can buy high
quality aerial imagery within minutes, scramble the volunteers and have
a decent map available in 24 hours?

I'm not sure funding individual mappers to map is actually the best
leverage, particularly in the West. OSM as a project is time-rich - we
have a lot of volunteers. Unless their mapping is the seed of a lot more
mapping. So the evangelism idea has more merit, to my mind, than the "I
could go work on this area" idea. (Sorry Gregory :-)

Gerv




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