[Osmf-talk] A modest proposal for "spending some money"

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

On 29.09.16 15:15, Andy Allan wrote:
> On 29 September 2016 at 12:14, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
>> and as chair of the likely largest spender (ignoring
>> depreciation) of OSMF funds outside of the board
> I think you overlooked OWG there :-)
>
>> The projects that come to my mind immediately for 2017 would be
>>
>> - group messaging
>>
>> - news dropdown (this was part of the original redesign proposal but
>> never got done)
>>
>> naturally opinions may differ on these, but they would seem to be
>> reasonably non-controversial and not involve amounts of money that we
>> can't afford.
> I respectfully disagree. At the moment we have a large codebase and
> very few people working on it. The moment the money is spent, we'll
> have a larger codebase, and still very few people working on it.
>
> I would rather see time, effort and/or money being spent with the
> primary goal of encouraging more developers by making it easier to
> contribute to the code. I have a big long list of things that can be
> done in this regard, easily equal in terms of man-hours to what you
> suggest above.
>
> More information in a recent post:
> https://blog.gravitystorm.co.uk/2016/09/15/refreshing-the-openstreetmap-codebase/
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
I would like to have a feature to add oblique aerial and ground photos 
to objects on the OSM map. Similar to Google Map, but better. Here is a 
couple of examples of oblique low-altitude aerial images for a train 
station /La Plaine/ https://goo.gl/maps/mjMkHTS8GA72 and
a nature reserve /Teppes de Verbois/ https://goo.gl/maps/mjJuVT3ruQU2

Google Map automatically reduces resolution of images, what is not good 
for seeing details for mapping. It is possible to add images to the OSM 
map indirectly via Wikimedia, no resolution reduction in this case, but 
an object should have a notability.

DJI released a new foldable quad-copter Mavic http://www.dji.com/mavic , 
with the 4K camera and 7 km range, which can be carried in a briefcase. 
It is an absolute revolution in aerial photography. However, I guess 
such a feature would be more than "some money", as each image takes 
about 3 MB. But maybe in future, when disk capacity increases further?

Best regards,
OLeksiy
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