<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 27, 2007 6:33 PM, Christopher Schmidt <<a href="mailto:crschmidt@crschmidt.net">crschmidt@crschmidt.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So, I've been working on this OpenAerialMap prototype thing. As of<br>earlier this evening, the domain <a href="http://openaerialmap.org" target="_blank">openaerialmap.org</a> is now pointing to<br>hypercube, a telascience hosted server which is designated for OSGeo
<br>use.<br><br>This raises a couple questions:<br> 1. Is there anyone on the committee who is against this use for an<br> OSGeo server? The goal of the project is to collect open aerial<br> imagery from around the world and provide it as a service to the
<br> public, similar to Google's satellite layer (which is a mosaic of<br> many things, including, in many cases, open state or county data).</blockquote><div><br>Personally, I think this is a great use of resources.
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br> 2. To what extent does the Geodata committee want to participate in the<br>
project? The current holders of the domain name <a href="http://openaerialmap.org" target="_blank">openaerialmap.org</a><br> are willing to donate the domain name to a foundation, and are<br> looking to participate in the wider community. Does OSGeo wish to
<br> take on the hosting of this type of data?<br></blockquote><div><br>My feelings are that this type of partnering with data projects would be a very good direction for our group and indeed a very good thing.<br> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>My opinion to these is "Yes, and Yes". I think this could be a major win<br>for OSGeo, to be a founding participant in the OpenAerialMap project.
<br>I think that the above two questions are largely a matter of degree: "Is<br>it okay if I continue to use OSGeo resources for this?" (Assuming, of<br>course, that John is happy to have me using telascience resources for
<br>it.) And the latter is 'Does OSGeo want to help?'<br><br>Looking forward to hearing other opinions.<br><br>Regards,<br><font color="#888888">--<br>Christopher Schmidt<br>Web Developer</font></blockquote><div><br>
Thanks again for all you work here Chris!<br><br>David <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><font color="#888888"><br>_______________________________________________
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