[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aerial Photography

[Brian Prangle]

Hi Peter

I am very keen to keep the momentum up on this - we already have £1000  from
the Regional Development Agency which OSMF should have invoiced. Thanks for
your very generous offer - I'll get to work on the wiki. We have feelers out
within the City Council for potential funding but we have not yet got a
concerted campaign going with a definite goal of a defined sum that we can
present to potential donors. I'll also get the WM guys to look at hosting -
anybody know what specs of server size/bandwidth we'd be looking at?  We
should aim at building in the cost of hosting into our appeal.

Regards

Brian

2009/9/15 Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com>

>
> 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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