[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Aerial Photography

[Peter Miller]

On 15 Sep 2009, at 16:09, Brian Prangle wrote:

> 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.

Good stuff. Possibly the next step is to get a firm price for while  
you will need a kml file and the we can have a proper appeal to get  
required approx £2,500.

You might be able to buy it from Emap in theUSA or the European  
distributor in Rome that Simone Cortesi has already spoken to in the  
past re the Gaza Strip photography. I  have copied this email to him  
to see if he could help again with sourcing it from Rome which would  
be best given that it is being purchased from within Europe.

> 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.

I am keen that we set something up that can handle more imagery over  
time. There are evidently discussions going on about a shed-load of  
10cm photography for another part of the UK and ITO is also planning  
to offer funding support for some satellite photography to support  
mapping in some other (smaller) urban areas in the UK, so let's plan  
something that will continue to work as more imagery arrives.

OAM isn't quite the correct place for this because the imagery is  
still (c) even if we have rights to derive mapping from it. Simone  
Cortesi organised hosting for the Gaza Strip photography - possibly he  
could help us out or offer us some advice.


Regards,


Peter


>
> 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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