[talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

[John Smith]

2009/11/4 James Andrewartha <trs80 at tartarus.uwa.edu.au>:
> Hi all,
>
> NearMap is a company that's going to do monthly or more often flights over
> the major cities, and license their images so that derivative works are
> CC-BY-SA, ie for OSM. They're also using OSM for their map layer.
> http://www.nearmap.com/ is their website but it's currently in stealth
> mode - see [1] for the username/password.

Do you know if they use multiple aircraft in the different cities, or
do they fly the same air craft around the country?

If it's the same aircraft do they plan to take imagery between cities too?

At $5/sq km, would it be possible to pay to get towns photographed
that might be out of the way?