Hi all, NearMap is a company that's going to do monthly or more often flights over the major cities, and license their images so that derivative works are CC-BY-SA, ie for OSM. They're also using OSM for their map layer. http://www.nearmap.com/ is their website but it's currently in stealth mode - see [1] for the username/password.
The imagery is mostly around Perth so far, but Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney also have some coverage. http://twitter.com/nearmap is updated with flights, apparently it takes two weeks for new imagery to go online. Their presentation [2] from 2007 claims "We operate at much less than $5/km2" thanks to their custom hardware and HPC processing. There's an investor presentation [3] from their parent company (which is a networking patent licensor) with a few more details. The presentation contains so example shots, including over time and comparisons to Google's imagery. There's more at [4] and in their forum [5]. As well as photos, they have highly accurate terrain data. James Andrewartha [1] http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=900486&page=51 [2] http://www.nearmap.com/assets/pdf/keynote/07-09-16NixonNearMapKeynote.pdf (currently requires a username/password) [3] http://www.ipernica.com/IRM/content/nearmap_news.html [4] http://www.nearmap.com/community/topfinds.aspx (currently requires a username/password) [5] http://nearmap.lefora.com/forum/category/interesting-finds/page1/ _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
