On 10 Feb 2009, at 20:07, Chris Hill wrote: > Brian Quinion wrote: >>> Should we investigate buying aerial photography for some of these >>> un-loved >>> places which would allow us the capture the base road structure and >>> land-usage prior to any actual visit and speed things up a lot? The >>> photography that Mikel and eye have been sorting out for Gaza >>> Strip is >>> costing $11 (£7.50) per sq km for 2 meter accuracy, 1 month old >>> colour >>> images (with the associated rights to derived mapping from them). >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Palestine_Gaza >>> >> >> Please, please NO! >> > +1 Please don't waste resources on an area in the UK that can > comfortably mapped on the ground. Aerial photos of a war zone is a > completely different thing where drawing maps on the ground is > dangerous. I'm not very likely to come across unexploded ordnance > in Grimsby.
I hear you loud and clear! I mapped Ipswich prior to photography being available and then the yahoo aerial photography turned up and I reviewed the area using it. I did find it useful to get the junction geometry correct, getting roundabouts the correct size, improving road centre-lines and spotting a bunch of missing features and doing the land-use more accurately. Personally I would have been happy to have had the support of the photography sooner but I do hear your message. Speak for yourself regarding bombs though:) I was mapping Felixstowe last summer when a 1000lb bomb got washed up on the beach and then got washed out to sea again before the army could deal with it! More details here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/7363722.stm Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
