Good morning,
Here are some of panoramic aerial images which I made in Odessa,
Ukraine, with the quadrocopter F450 DJI (flight controller Naza V2 with
GPS) and camera GoPro 4 Session. One such an image may cover several
square kilometers. It does not substitute satellite imagery, but
provides useful information for mapping: building levels, land-use, etc.
And it is not necessary to have hundreds of photos for just one street
as with a Street-View approach. So it is not necessary to have the
newest servers for such a layer.
City of Odessa, Ukraine:
https://goo.gl/photos/Jnt4TaXuxyw7j6kR8
and town of Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi:
https://goo.gl/photos/ve3NPBSg98v46n5J7
to get the HD photo download it, do not save from the browser screen.
<https://goo.gl/photos/Jnt4TaXuxyw7j6kR8>F450 DJI is assembled from the
ARF (almost ready to fly kit), so it is easy to upgrade and repair. It
is a robust flying platform. Let alone camera GoPro 4 Session.
Mapillary accept aerial images but a flight should be only 4 - 5 meters
above the ground. I published several aerial images on Google Maps
though, and the number of views is in thousands. Images are to be
geo-tagged before publishing to Google Maps.
There will be the conference "How drones changing your business" in
Lausanne, Switzerland, on September 14th and 15th 2015:
http://droneapps.co/ . Among attendees are DJI, Airbus, Lufthansa,
SenseFly, DB Bahn, SNCF, and others.
I am also experimenting with fixed-wing UAVs. It is much harder to learn
to pilot well, but a fixed-wing UAV is capable by now to fly about 200
km along a waypoint route with an autopilot.
So the idea is to implement such a panoramic aerial imagery layer at the
OSM.
Best regards,
Oleksiy
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