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Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap

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Re: Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap

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Post by b_emery »

uptown wrote: post #5

Completely awesome. I was curious so I looked up the eBee price. $12,000 - too steep for a hobbyist, but I'm sure that price will come down over time as drones become more widespread.

Not sure what you get for $12k, but know that it is possible to build an autonomous airplane, and a gopro for much less than that. Here's a friend's video for evidence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX3kFWoH17o&feature=c4-overvi...

His cost is order $2000.

Re: Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap

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Post by riquito »

Cool, but you can't let your drone fly over cities. Not in my country and I suppose not in most places around the world.

My brother however will be happy to use his quadcopter to contribute with some aerial images of fields

Re: Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap

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Post by maxerickson »

nwh wrote: post #10
uptown wrote: post #5

Completely awesome. I was curious so I looked up the eBee price. $12,000 - too steep for a hobbyist, but I'm sure that price will come down over time as drones become more widespread.

Man that's expensive. You could probably build something similar on a quadrocopter base for a tenth of that. Not a lot to the thing when you look at it.

It comes with a ready to go autopilot and, I think, the software to turn the imagery into useful data (the stitching and georeferencing).

Re: Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap

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Post by gaahrdner »

uptown wrote: post #5

Completely awesome. I was curious so I looked up the eBee price. $12,000 - too steep for a hobbyist, but I'm sure that price will come down over time as drones become more widespread.

You certainly can do this for much cheaper. [0]

[0] http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=mapping

Re: Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap

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Post by dougmccune »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #3

This is insanely cool, and a bit crazy too. 45 minutes to map 10km^2, so two of them, swapping out batteries, you're talking one person mapping 90 km^2 a day. So a city like San Francisco (121 km^2) in a couple of days? Or San Jose (467 km^2) in a week? That is pretty interesting. Make your own map with license to your own assets pretty reasonably I'd guess.

The laws would have to change to allow you to fly these over populated areas. There's a reason the blog post is about flying over someone's private farmland. As a commercial company you can't even charge a farmer to fly over his land, the owner of the land has to do it himself.

Re: Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap

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Post by jlar »

uptown wrote: post #5

Completely awesome. I was curious so I looked up the eBee price. $12,000 - too steep for a hobbyist, but I'm sure that price will come down over time as drones become more widespread.

I got a quote back from a reseller for $25,490...where is your price from?

Re: Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap

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Post by uptown »

jlar wrote: post #16
uptown wrote: post #5

Completely awesome. I was curious so I looked up the eBee price. $12,000 - too steep for a hobbyist, but I'm sure that price will come down over time as drones become more widespread.

I got a quote back from a reseller for $25,490...where is your price from?

A bunch of sites cited that price, but here's two of them:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/parrot-adds-...

http://www.gizmag.com/sensefly-ebee-uav/25851/

Others: https://www.google.com/search?q=eBee+%2412%2C000

Re: Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

senthilnayagam wrote: post #7

volunteers with army of drones can can cover cities, there can be a kickstarter for each city funded by its resident. I will fund for chennai and bangalore for sure

Prepare to have your expensive drone captured or destroyed by your government, and to be investigated as a criminal.

Re: Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap

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Post by scoot »

nwh wrote: post #10
uptown wrote: post #5

Completely awesome. I was curious so I looked up the eBee price. $12,000 - too steep for a hobbyist, but I'm sure that price will come down over time as drones become more widespread.

Man that's expensive. You could probably build something similar on a quadrocopter base for a tenth of that. Not a lot to the thing when you look at it.

A multi-rotor will ccurrently only give you 10-15 mins flight time with a payload. There are cheaper options (than the OP) that are also more practical.
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