On Wednesday 23 September 2009, paul youlten wrote: > How be difficult would it be to adapt their low-cost approach to give > more useful images for mapping?
Very. Getting steady images from a balloon would be very difficult, even with a gimbal. The payload swings like a pendulum. You also wouldn't be able to control where the balloon went. You would have a very hard time fighting against wind with an RC blimp. Current efforts doing UAV aerial imagery revolve around fixed wing aircraft and to a lesser extent helicopters. They have limited flight times but are looking quite promising. robert. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
