[OSM-talk] SOTM Africa

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

By the way, a new aircraft will be available in stores soon, the DJI 
Mavic mini (no affiliation). Its take-off weight is 249 grams, i.e. it 
does not require a registration (in some countries where a registration 
is compulsory).
It is capable to turn the camera 90 degrees downward: 
https://www.dji.com/ch/mavic-mini/specs . It is easy to take such a 
light foldable quad-copter to a survey.

There is an interesting development in long range RC planes too. The 
"Sonicmodell Binary 1200mm Wingspan Twin Motor Multi-role Aerial Survey 
FPV Platform Mapping RC Airplane" has got inbuilt compartment for a 
mapping camera:
https://www.banggood.com/Sonicmodell-Binary-1200mm-Wingspan-EPO-Twin-Motor-Multirole-Aerial-Survey-FPV-Platform-Mapping-RC-Airplane-KIT-p-1473014.html

I mean the aerial photography technology keeps developing. I still 
remember how we had to use kites to lift a camera in the air with varied 
success.

Best regards,
Oleksiy

On 11/23/19 22:15, Steve Coast wrote:
> ...
>
> One of the tangential things that grabbed me was 
> http://africabees.com/ <http://africabees.com/> - using drones to map 
> places in a distributed way. Not to distract from 
> https://www.opendronemap.org/ which was also represented and awesome.
>
> ...


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