<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 13 Sep 2009, at 16:03, John Robert Peterson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">As for plans for how -- I sent an email to the OAM list for advice, and haven't gotten a reply.<br><br>As for hosting, that's even more of a mystery.<br><br>I'm not planning to put them all online in the short term -- while flickr would be able ot hold all 10GB of data, it would be an almost imposable ot access format.<br></blockquote><div><br></div>Thanks for uploading those to Flickr.</div><div><br></div><div>The ones that are most useful to me as simple photographs (ie not rectified) are the ones that show the larger areas of the town where it is possible to identify the area of town the photo is of and then add land-use to OSM and identify missing content such as streets etc. I have already added a little to the map but it would be great to have a good selection of these available on Flickr before the AGI conference.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are the ones that work best for me:-</div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thingomy/3910339688/in/set-72157622214942341/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/thingomy/3910339688/in/set-72157622214942341/</a></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thingomy/3909555361/in/set-72157622214942341/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/thingomy/3909555361/in/set-72157622214942341/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Could you upload a reasonable selection of photos covering the town at that sort of scale to Flickr?</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <br>If anyone know how to process this type of data, or has even a little info that may be hlpful, please come with it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ok, so some expertise would be useful here. I believe that this is what OAM is meant to do - possibly when it is back working it will be a good place to host them. Other suggestions greatly appreciated.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><br>I had a go with <a href="http://warper.geothings.net">http://warper.geothings.net</a> -- the results were disappointing, and exceedingly slow. It's a good service, but it's designed for rectifying maps, not oblique photos.<br> <br>I have been investigating the possibilities of using something like Panorama Tools / hugin -- they are designed for panoramas, but the idea of auto identifying matching points between a set of images, and using them as the reference points for stitching sounds very appealing. If anyone knows of a way to do this, please help.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Lets see what we can do with the straightforward photos in the short term while we figure out how to rectify and host them.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <br>If anyone wants a copy of the complete data set for anything open source/creative commons/sensible -- let me know, we can come ot some arangment involving posting things.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div>Yes please!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite">JR<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> 2009/9/13 Thomas Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grand.edgemaster@gmail.com">grand.edgemaster@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I did note there was a call for help with rectifying.<br> <br> Are there any plans yet for how this will be done and where the<br> eventual outcome will be hosted?<br> <br> 2009/9/13 Dan Karran <<a href="mailto:dan@karran.net">dan@karran.net</a>>:<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5">> 2009/9/11 Peter Miller <<a href="mailto:peter.miller@itoworld.com">peter.miller@itoworld.com</a>>:<br> ><br> >> JR is preparing the images at the moment and will start loading them up onto<br> >> Flickr soon and we can then figure out what we can do with them.<br> ><br> > For anyone interested in the photos, it looks like they're going up at<br> > <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thingomy/sets/72157622214942341/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/thingomy/sets/72157622214942341/</a><br> ><br> > They look great!<br> ><br> ><br> > Cheers,<br> > Dan<br> ><br> > --<br> > Dan Karran<br> > <a href="mailto:dan@karran.net">dan@karran.net</a><br> > <a href="http://www.dankarran.com" target="_blank">www.dankarran.com</a><br> ><br> > _______________________________________________<br> > Talk-GB mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br> > <a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br> ><br> <br> <br> <br> </div></div><font color="#888888">--<br> Regards,<br> Thomas Wood<br> (Edgemaster)<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> _______________________________________________<br> Talk-GB mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br> _______________________________________________<br>Talk-GB mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>