Some of these 'players' are the USGS and USDA. They generate tons of
imagery which is public domain, but is poorly distributed.
Jeff
On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:39, Yves Moisan <[email protected]> wrote:
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
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