> In addition, if there were any "players" in the world that we might > want to get involved,
Who are those players who would want to provide their own high res aerial images to a service like OAM instead of waiting for Google to update their area? All levels of government (maybe especially cities ??) are the most obvious such players IMO because they do not normally have a commercial interest in keeping their data for themselves. They don't sell their images; they use them. But then again they may not be able to publish images they paid for ... There are also a bunch of aerial photos in university libraries. I think the question is what are the organizations that have no commercial interest in the aerial images they have (or own ?) ? I for one believe the real drawback to an OSM based map is the lack of a hybrid view where one can toggle an image for background. OSM+OAM would be a very compelling solution. My 2 cents. Yves _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://openaerialmap.org/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org
