Recently MapQuest announced it's Open Initiative. One of the features is that they allow you to use their open aerial tiles without restriction. Granted this data is limited to 1m/pixel data source from the NAIP dataset, but from what I understand it's OK to use this data in anyway you please, including commercial. No stated limits on bandwidth either.
http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/map so may question is, is this not starting to look a lot like openaerialmap? > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:46:19 -0800 > From: Schuyler Erle <[email protected]> > To: Richard Weait <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OAM-talk] Any news? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > On Mar 8, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > >> So is there any news? >> >> Are there any blockers that we can unjam by discussing them? > > Actually, quite a lot is happening, but it's all been a bit quiet. > > Christopher Schmidt and I (well, mostly Chris) have been hard at work on > getting some code up and running that will support the architecture design > outlined in this whiteboard sketch from the Novemeber RELIEF exercise at Camp > Roberts: > > http://twitpic.com/35saf8 > > The architecture that we're implementing is more or less documented here: > > http://crschmidt.net/oam/ > > And the code base lives here: > > http://github.com/oam/oam/ (at least, I think that is the URL... Github is > down at the moment...) > > At Camp Roberts, Mike Migurski and I got as far as a round trip API->tiles > proof-of-concept. So the whole thing works; Chris has been filling in the > pieces on the imagery index backend. > > I have some other news, re hosting services, etc., which will has been > waiting on me making time to sit down and write it up. That will have to wait > until tomorrow, I think. I'll try to include some description of our present > time frame. > > Is there anyone on the list ready to donate substantial server space or > devote time writing Python or C code? It'd be good to see a show of hands. > > SDE > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://host134.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org > > > End of talk Digest, Vol 32, Issue 1 > *********************************** > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://host134.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org
