I remember reading a news items about the plan for indian railways to have some sort of national internet broadband network, riding on top of the existing railway network.
Railtel Corporation of India Ltd, was supposed to provide broadband internet connection in Kerala. Not sure how far the project has advanced. Couldn't that network be used for such live streaming... just a thought Abhi On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Pradeep Mohandas < pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > I was wondering if they would allow recording equipment to take video of > the whole 64,215 km of tracks that the Indian Railway has and release it > under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license licensed to Indian Railways. > > Crazy but could be done. There are railway enthusiasts. > > warm regards, > Pradeep Mohandas > > On 17 June 2011 16:06, <wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Email the General Manager, Western Railways - but I doubt you will get >> any response! >> >> ------------------------------ >> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:53:04 +0530 >> From: pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com >> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Hurtigruta - another >> strange video project from Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation >> >> >> hi, >> >> I wonder if anybody in the Indian Railways or cruise ships would be >> interested in such a project. >> >> warm regards, >> Pradeep Mohandas >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: *John Erling Blad* <jeb...@gmail.com> >> Date: 17 June 2011 03:04 >> Subject: [cultural-partners] Hurtigruta - another strange video project >> from Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation >> To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination < >> cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch> >> >> >> In 2010 the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation made a strange video >> production «Bergenbanen» (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen_Line), a >> five hour contineous video streamed live from the train. Now they are >> making «Hurtigruta» (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurtigruten), a five >> day contineous video from the ships travelling along the Norwegian >> coastline. The stream should be available worlwide >> (http://www.nrk.no/hurtigruten/). The previous stream about >> Bergensbanen is made available under a creative commons license and is >> also available at commons >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bergensbanen_1280x720.ogv). >> >> This kind of documentary video should be possible in other contexts >> too. What about the steamboat «Skibladner» >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skibladner) at lake Mjøsa? Or the boats >> travelling Göta Kanal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ta_Canal)? >> In general, what if we could build a rig to make such documentary >> videos? Just an idea. >> >> John >> _______________________________________________ >> cultural-partners mailing list >> cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch >> http://lists.wikimedia.ch/listinfo/cultural-partners >> >
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