[talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?

[Jim Croft]

$150 gives you a feed from space... ;)

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/21/reaching-near-space-for-less-than-150/

jim

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:17 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/27 terryc <terryc at woa.com.au>:
>> John Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Sydney is 1788 sq km according to wikipedia at $12/sq km comes out at
>>
>> Can you explain the $12/sqkms.
>
> Sat imagery with a non-profit discount is about US$12/sq km
>
>> (That 1788 sqkms sounds awfully small to me, but anyway)
>
> I looked again area is 12144.6 km² (I really must stop emailing late
> at night), so at US$12/sq km = $145,000.... The prices must have
> dropped compared to what is on the OSM wiki which estimated the price
> at $300k....
>
>> Is that possible under OSM?
>
> We'd need a legal entity to do it under, however there is nothing I
> know of that would prevent us from on selling/licensing assets the
> legal entity produces to further fund itself.
>
>> (There is also the question of the established competition).
>
> This is the question, can we provide our own imagery cheaper than
> others already doing it?
>
> Which is probably yes, at that point could we use it as a funding source?
>
> Instead of onselling/licensing the imagery we could see if Yahoo or
> someone is interested in the results and willing to fund us to do
> it...
>
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