[Openstreetmap] Satellite cost/benefit

[Richard Fairhurst]

On 19 Feb 2005, at 16:07, Jo Walsh wrote:

> i still love the New Popular Edition idea and reckon that, at least we
> could be able to offer it as a base layer, with a WMS interface. a
> cinch with mapserver if they are / we can get them georeferenced.
> (i suppose they all have OS grid lines, and we know the likely
> projection... Richard, how is it looking since
> http://www.systemed.net/blog/entry041216225441.html )
> then hosting/bandwidth is maybe at UCL, or...?

Sorry, been busy at work & so on (doing mapping stuff with Flash, so no 
great hardship!). Yes, they do all have OS grid lines.

I'd be delighted to give openstreetmappers, geowankers and allied 
trades the chance to do something with the New Popular Edition mapping. 
If this means putting it on an FTP site, no problem - alternatively, 
I'm happy to post a copy on CD or DVD to anyone on the list, given a 
small donation just for the cost of media and postage. Jo, should I 
post you one as a starter?

The one thing I'd like to keep a handle on, in an evil proprietary-type 
way, is the redistribution of the complete set of scans. This is 
largely because it's cost a (modest) four-figure sum to get the scans 
together, and I'd like to have a chance at getting that back by selling 
cheap CDs to family historians and the like. But I do get very cross 
when people try to prevent the creation of derived works from 
facsimiles of historical mapping, so wouldn't want any further 
restrictions.

(I'm sure somewhere there's a CC licence that sums that up perfectly...)

cheers
Richard