Hi All, The potential for access to Quebec imagery is nice, if the provider and license will permit. The best place for that and similar imagery would be OpenAerialMap.org[1], which poses a problem, because OAM is still "rebooting" itself. OAM in the first incarnation found that it was flooded with available datasets, and with enthusiastic consumers of the data. This puts a very large burden on the OAM operators in terms of image storage space and bandwidth to provide the data. There is a further burden of processing power required to adapt the imagery from whatever form it is donated to whatever form the consumers wish to have it. These lessons can inform us, even if we limit our interests to a relatively small area, and a limited number of datasets.
If you can contribute, or negotiate a hosting agreement for an OAM node on the order of 50TB of tape-backed storage on a very robust connection, please participate in the discussion. Finding the first partners who are willing to share the resource requirements of this massive project is the next big step. [1] http://wiki.openaerialmap.org/Main_Page _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
