<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 1 Apr 2009, at 17:01, Karl Newman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Tom Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom_evans_a@yahoo.co.uk">tom_evans_a@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Tijs Zwinkels wrote:<br> > - Any opinions about / ideas for my proposal?<br> <br> Just an idea, could be a part of your app: (I'm a bit doubtful of<br> the usefulness of geotagged pictures at the moment; they're cool,<br> but _useful_?)<br> <br> If I started from a suggested gpx track or OSM route of some kind,<br> would it be possible to automatically (using AI ;-) ) select some<br> useful photos for the navigation. Maybe ones of something for me to<br> recognize at each turning, but only if it's visible to me as I<br> approach. Maybe also one every so often to confirm I am still on<br> the route.<br> <br> Since you'd have to print out or remember each photo it'd have to be<br> quite selective about useful ones, rather than throwing out a big<br> pile. I'm imagining a single page printout with a grid of a dozen<br> photos I have to look out for, maybe with a bit of text or a<br> direction arrow associated with each.<br> <br> Just a thought. Maybe someone will tell me it's already been done.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> Tom<br> </font></blockquote></div><br>Seems like you'd want information about the direction the photo was taken (i.e., its heading) in order to show useful pictures. You wouldn't want to show photos that are pointing away from where you'd be driving as you're approaching a turn. Landmarks might be useful, though.<br> <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>CycleStreets has the functionality to select photos from its photo library based on the route direction, though this functionality is currently turned off, during the inital beta phase of the site. This functionality was in the previous Cambridge Cycling Campaign site.</div><div><br></div><div>Shaun</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>