Stefan de Cronin wrote > Erik Lundin schreef: > >> I know RC helicopters as potential aerial photo source has been >> discussed before, but today I read about some helicopter from DraganFly >> and didn't find anything about them on the lists. They seem to be very >> interesting for our purposes. >> >> http://www.draganfly.com/ >> > They are far to expensive. Currently we (openstreetphoto) are looking at > big Electroglyders. Shortly we will have some snapshots from a smaller > one. The one that is in the progres to be build will have a spawn of > around 3 meters and could potentially carry a digital reflex camera. > > If you want to go Quadcopter I strongly suggest to go for a real open > source project. Because you will not realise how much it will annoy you > if you have to change something but can't do it because the platform is > closed. > This won't happen if you develop your own one ;)
Draganfly is a little bit expensive (as it is designed commercially for professional users), there are cheaper microcopter projects. regards _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
