[Geodata] OpenAerialMap: To what extent does the Geodata committee want to participate?

[David William Bitner]

On Nov 27, 2007 6:33 PM, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net>
wrote:

> So, I've been working on this OpenAerialMap prototype thing. As of
> earlier this evening, the domain openaerialmap.org is now pointing to
> hypercube, a telascience hosted server which is designated for OSGeo
> use.
>
> This raises a couple questions:
>  1. Is there anyone on the committee who is against this use for an
>    OSGeo server? The goal of the project is to collect open aerial
>    imagery from around the world and provide it as a service to the
>    public, similar to Google's satellite layer (which is a mosaic of
>    many things, including, in many cases, open state or county data).


Personally, I think this is a great use of resources.

>
>
>  2. To what extent does the Geodata committee want to participate in the
>    project? The current holders of the domain name openaerialmap.org
>    are willing to donate the domain name to a foundation, and are
>    looking to participate in the wider community. Does OSGeo wish to
>    take on the hosting of this type of data?
>

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.


>
> My opinion to these is "Yes, and Yes". I think this could be a major win
> for OSGeo, to be a founding participant in the OpenAerialMap project.
> I think that the above two questions are largely a matter of degree: "Is
> it okay if I continue to use OSGeo resources for this?" (Assuming, of
> course, that John is happy to have me using telascience resources for
> it.) And the latter is 'Does OSGeo want to help?'
>
> Looking forward to hearing other opinions.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> Web Developer


Thanks again for all you work here Chris!

David

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