>The other question to be asked is the time, effort and money put into >this be less than archived sat imagery which is about $14 per sq km.
Yeah...but it would be fun to try! ... and while $14/sq Km doesn't sound a lot it would still cost $5376 (£4900) just to get images of (for example) the Isle of Wight in the UK, $11000 (€7440) to get pictures of New York City and $8000 (€5414) for the island of Ibiza in Spain. On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:38 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/9/23 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>: >> I always thought that aviation regulations require the pilot - whether on >> board or on the ground - to monitor the airspace around the aircraft and >> take evasive action where necessary. It would be hard to do that on the >> ground for an aircraft that far up. But maybe that depends on the country >> you're in. I think in the US it is pretty much "everything goes" up to 1200 >> feet AGL or so but after that you have to behave. > > The other question to be asked is the time, effort and money put into > this be less than archived sat imagery which is about $14 per sq km. > -- Tel: +44(0) 7814 517 807 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk