Notices by Stephen Mather (smathermather@mapstodon.space)

This is delightful. We got a post on the @OpenDroneMap forum from Luca Bonuccelli showing a 3D reconstruction of the Tower of Pisa:
https://community.opendronemap.org/t/pisa-climbing-tower/23031

@evan what you seem to be describing is some of the limited public benefit of large corporate bodies that monopolise what might have been a public good. Just because such monopolies still share characteristics of public good, such as shared discovery, economies of scale, capacity to do research that otherwise is hard to fund, doen’t make those structures any more attractive to me. It makes me wonder what more we could have had if we had structured them as publicly controlled and accountable.