OpenAerialMap is an open collection of aerial photographs, collected into a single coherent view of the world. It is an attempt to gather satellite imagery

Satellite imagery

Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made by means of artificial satellites.- History :The first images from space were taken on sub-orbital flights. The U.S-launched V-2 flight on October 24, 1946 took one image every 1.5 seconds...

 and aerial photography

Aerial photography

Aerial photography is the taking of photographs of the ground from an elevated position. The term usually refers to images in which the camera is not supported by a ground-based structure. Cameras may be hand held or mounted, and photographs may be taken by a photographer, triggered remotely or...

data from various free and open aerial imagery datasources around the world.

Work has ceased on first prototype version of OpenAerialMap, and the imagery server and website are now offline. The project wiki gives the reasons for this, but also has a page for coordinating a new initiative.

External links

• OpenAerialMap main site - now offline
• OpenAerialMap project wiki