[OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The Mapper's Plight

[Richard Fairhurst]

Heh, I was just about to post on this topic and Frederik Ramm has  
posted something very germane to dev:

> Tuesday.
>
> Someone told me that I mustn't use Google satellite imagery and that I
> should delete my stuff. Do I look like I can afford my own satellite or
> what?

Yes!

http://www.qinetiq.com/home/commercial/space/space_missions_and/development_projects/topsat.html  
says:

"For a cost of £25,000, customers can lease the satellite for a period  
of a week and control its schedule of imaging operations"

I reckon we do it.

As soon as we announced it, we'd get Slashdotted and the £25k would be  
pledged within no time.

Plus imagine what open/free high-resolution imagery would do to the  
global geodata market. It'd be like lobbing a brick through the global  
imagery guys' window and walking away cackling.

cheers
Richard