Re: [Talk-GB] Use of Drones

2017-09-19 Thread Simon Poole
The main issue that makes using UAVs of any sort difficult in Europe is the wide variety in regulation (ranging from de facto outlawing non Government use outside of playing to fairly reasonable), the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is undertaking an effort to produceĀ  harmonized rules https

Re: [Talk-GB] Use of Drones

2017-09-19 Thread me
On 18/09/17 at 12:53pm, Philip Barnes wrote: >There was a talk by 'the only licensed drone pilot in Scotland' at SOTM >Scotland a couple of years ago. > >I missed the outdoor demo as I went to the NLS map library. Yes Paul has a eBee senseFly - https://www.sensefly.com/drones/ebee.htm

Re: [Talk-GB] Use of Drones

2017-09-18 Thread Malcolm Herring
On 18/09/2017 11:03, Brian Prangle wrote: Does anyone have any experience of using drones? I once used a drone to map an inaccessible island in the Humber. The drone's camera can be pointed directly downwards, so I flew it around the island, keeping the high water mark in the centre of the fr

Re: [Talk-GB] Use of Drones

2017-09-18 Thread SK53
Drones are used extensively by wildlife charities. Examples I'm aware of include: - 8 cm imagery of individual nature reserves. - Pointclouds of imagery & photogrammetric data of cliffs for vegetation surveys. I would think in a couple of years most larger nature reserves will have been

Re: [Talk-GB] Use of Drones

2017-09-18 Thread Dan S
2017-09-18 11:03 GMT+01:00 Brian Prangle : > The regulations on the use of drones in the UK are already quite restrictive > (if, of course, you're a responsible memeber of society) and are imminently > to become even more restrictive with licensing and proof of competence > becoming requirements.

Re: [Talk-GB] Use of Drones

2017-09-18 Thread Philip Barnes
There was a talk by 'the only licensed drone pilot in Scotland' at SOTM Scotland a couple of years ago. I missed the outdoor demo as I went to the NLS map library. Phil (trigpoint) On 18 September 2017 12:14:01 BST, Marc Gemis wrote: >Oleksiy Muzalyev seems to be pretty knowledgable on dron

Re: [Talk-GB] Use of Drones

2017-09-18 Thread Marc Gemis
Oleksiy Muzalyev seems to be pretty knowledgable on drones. He has posted about it a couple of times on the talk mailing list. e.g. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-September/076758.html But he's not living in the UK. regards m. On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Brian Prangle

[Talk-GB] Use of Drones

2017-09-18 Thread Brian Prangle
The regulations on the use of drones in the UK are already quite restrictive (if, of course, you're a responsible memeber of society) and are imminently to become even more restrictive with licensing and proof of competence becoming requirements. I'm pessimistic about being able to make use of dro