Aerial pictures
During the last years, several initiatives were tried to produce aerial pictures. The goal of this page is to centralize all of them in order to give a clear and honest picture of all the constraints, costs and positive aspects of each solution.
Organisation | Type | Description | Costs | Contact | Commons |
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Wikimedia CH | Kite aerial photography | Kite equipped with a camera → aim to produce pictures of landmarks or cities from the sky | 700€ | Pleclown | Examples |
Wikimedia Deutschland | Airplane flights | Photographer taking pictures from an Aircraft. (On German Wikipedia) | Raboe001 | Examples | |
Wikimedia France | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle | Quad-rotor UAV with a camera flying at low altitude (below 150m above ground level) | 1,000 → 3,000€ [1] | photo[AT]lists.wikimedia.fr | ToucanWings |
Wikimedia Israel | Airplane flights | he:וק:ויקיאוויר − Presentation − Examples | |||
Wikimedia Sverige | Helicopter flights | Taking photos from a commercial helicopter sightseeing tour. | 150 → 900€[2] | Jan Ainali (WMSE) | Examples |
Wikimedia Eesti | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle | Taking images with an UAV. Mostly in Hiiumaa island, but also from various ports and few other locations. | 300 € | Ivo Kruusamägi | All images |
Notes
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edit- Grants:Learning patterns/Using drones for aerial photography for Commons and Wikipedia
- Iniative with Czech Republic Ambassador Programm
- User Zdeněk Fiedler is providing aerial images of villages in the Czech republic