On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:43:14PM +0100, Laurence Penney wrote: > On 12 Aug 2009, at 00:30, Christopher Schmidt wrote: >> ... OAM was started exactly to be one monolithic mosaic, as an >> 'open' alternative to Google Maps satellite imagery, nothing more. >> (The fact that the project grew to have so many people thinking that >> it >> was 'meant to' do so many things is evidence of the people in terested >> havd a wide variety of varied interests, not that the project itself, >> insofar as it exists as a seperate entity, had those goals at its >> inception.) > > Was time intended to be handled in OAM? (Google Earth has: 24 sets of > San Francisco 1946-2007; 7 sets of Berlin 2000-2006; 9 sets of London > 1999-2006.)
It was designed into the database schema, but nothing was ever done with it. > I've been toying with the idea of starting up a service where single > aerial photographs can be uploaded, or just referenced, along with > "view" data and approximate timestamp. Depending on how accurately > people set up their views, we could get pretty good temporal coverage of > places that have been considered interesting for decades. That was part of the original design, specifically for things like diydrones and other drone or low-altitude aerial photography. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://openaerialmap.org/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org
