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

[Mike Collinson]

And I was pondering whether OSM shouldn't just 
bid country by country to provide replacements 
for Google/Yahoo/MS maps when their current 
contracts run out.  It would both fund the cause 
and further the cause if done right.  Sometimes 
what starts as a joke can turn into something worthwhile!!

Mike
Manila

At 09:09 PM 25/01/2007, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>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