Spotted this. The rights issues around the material would no doubt be interesting, but this might be something where we could offer some funding to offset the costs of digitisation/storage, and look to get a tranche of the material onto Commons.

Thoughts?

Andrew.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andy Robinson ajrlists@gmail.com Date: 5 April 2013 10:54 Subject: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs To: Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Folks,

Sheffield University has some surplus aerial imagery that could be available to us if we wish to have it. Its described as a considerable collection (amounting to around 6 filling cabinets) of UK (mostly England, and mainly northern England) black & white 9" x 9" photographic prints, dating from around WWII to the early 1980s. There are a few index sheets, many of the boxed sets are labelled.

I've asked for some more details so that we might consider storage requirements (They are currently temporarily stored in a garage but need to be in a dry low humidity room really) and should get some photos of what it all looks like in the next few days.

In the meantime two questions for UK OSMers:

1. Do you think this is a resource that we should go for and build upon as a sub-project within OSM? 2. How should we best deal with physical storage until such time as items can be digitised. The question about what to do with documents (same applies to all the map sheets I have) after digitising can be left till a later date.

I'm less worried about scanning and managing the files now as I have sufficient scanning equipment to cover most bases and disk space attached to an OSM sever doesn't appear to be an issue. We would need to come up with tools and methods of turning them into a seamless mosaic but I'm sure given the task there's a workable solution for that too.

All thoughts, suggestions and offers welcome.

Cheers Andy

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