OpenStreetMap
This is my FPV camera after a 200m dive from the kite when the rig failed yesterday.
It fell on the roof of a Ferrari car-service (seen below from a photo camera which made it safely to the ground) and it kept recording/transmitting for another 30 minutes despite the twisted head joint and being covered in snow.
In other news last week groupon.com had an offer for sight-seeing flights over Warsaw, Poland, in a two-seater ultra-light airplane for just about EUR20. I bought three coupons :) They let you decide the route and altitude and buy additional kilometres for 50cent/km and I hope that will let me complete most of the free (as in freedom) aerial map for my city, till now made with the kite or rc helicopter.
Discussion
Comment from Roger the Shrubber on 7 January 2011 at 21:26
Out of interest, how are you photographing your town? Is the camera mounted underneath the plane as in conventional aerial photography?
Comment from balrog-kun on 7 January 2011 at 22:42
I haven't been on the plane yet, but supposedly it has a special downwards facing window for that. Till now I have been doing plain old kite aerial photography (KAP) :)