[OSM-talk] Satellite for OSM

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net
Sun May 17 22:52:07 BST 2009


Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Not if you plan to let it make photos that are of better resolution 
> than Landsat though!

Oh, I don't know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TopSat
http://www.qinetiq.com/home/defence/defence_solutions/space/topsat.html

Apparently you can rent it for £25k a week... easily within the ambition of
donate.openstreetmap.org.

(And they give the images free to humanitarian agencies, see
http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2007/4th_quarter/topsat_satellite_imagery.html
- Mikel, do you reckon we could get in on that?)

MP's point about what you do with the vast quantities of data that you get
is well-observed, of course. But we like a challenge.

cheers
Richard
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