The View from Above. Andy Allan’s notes on three different projects that aerial imagery with OpenStreetMap. Andy and friends hired a small plane and took their own aerial photographs of Stratford-upon-Avon as a demo for a GIS conference. Aid agencies in the Philippines benefitted from OSM and a donation of high quality satellite imagery. Rural Georgia now has hiqh quality images from 2007 thanks to the Department of Agriculture.
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In the US, most incorporated areas have aerial photos made for planning purposes, but these are kept private (despite tax funding) due to contract restrictions with the outsourced photography organization. It's a tremendous missed value.
Jeremy Dunck - 11th December 2009 16:52 - #