$150 gives you a feed from space... ;) http://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/21/reaching-near-space-for-less-than-150/
jim On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:17 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/9/27 terryc <ter...@woa.com.au>: >> John Smith wrote: >> >>> Sydney is 1788 sq km according to wikipedia at $12/sq km comes out at >> >> Can you explain the $12/sqkms. > > Sat imagery with a non-profit discount is about US$12/sq km > >> (That 1788 sqkms sounds awfully small to me, but anyway) > > I looked again area is 12144.6 kmĀ² (I really must stop emailing late > at night), so at US$12/sq km = $145,000.... The prices must have > dropped compared to what is on the OSM wiki which estimated the price > at $300k.... > >> Is that possible under OSM? > > We'd need a legal entity to do it under, however there is nothing I > know of that would prevent us from on selling/licensing assets the > legal entity produces to further fund itself. > >> (There is also the question of the established competition). > > This is the question, can we provide our own imagery cheaper than > others already doing it? > > Which is probably yes, at that point could we use it as a funding source? > > Instead of onselling/licensing the imagery we could see if Yahoo or > someone is interested in the results and willing to fund us to do > it... > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > -- _________________ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft ... in pursuit of the meaning of leaf ... ... 'All is leaf' ('Alles ist Blatt') - Goethe _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au