[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aerial Photography

[Peter Miller]

On 15 Sep 2009, at 09:06, Brian Prangle wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> With all the talk-traffic on GB it's probably time we gave some  
> thought on how to progress our campaign to get aerial photography  
> for the City Centre. I'm not convinced that the Stratford method is  
> going to be useful.

Agreed, it has be useful to try the approach  but the rectification  
may be a challenge and it won't work near major airports etc. It was  
fun to give it a try given the proximity of the flight company. I  
think we should it use commercial photography already rectified where  
this is available.

> Without a concerted campaign to raise funds ( and to know precisely  
> what we're after) the money already raised is going to languish  
> (Andy have we invoiced and received any money yet?). I've got one  
> more potential avenue to raise some cash ( my ex-CEO who also owns  
> an aviation business)

The cost of basic satellite photography is $14 per sq km. The US  
exchange rate has moved considerably in our favour over the past four  
months so this is now about £10 and the cost of the whole West  
Midlands conurbation would probably be about £4-5K I seem to remember.  
I have been in email communication with eMap in the states over the  
past few weeks. A deduction for a charitable purchase has also been  
mentioned.

As you know I am keen that we make more use of photography. If you  
want to do this then make the appeal known and I will help promote it.  
I would be happy to contribute £750 which would need to go via a  
charitable partner which I would be happy to arrange for you (this is  
me not ITO btw). My only condition would be that there was a plan  
prepared to host it and make use of it. I suggest that the OSMF should  
actually make the purchase and own the results unless you have a  
better idea.

There is general information here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aerial_photography_funding_appeals

If you are keen to progress this then say so and lets use the wiki  
page to gather pledges.



Regards,



Peter



>
> Regards
>
> Brian
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