<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">So, after talking about my ideas for an OpenStreetView project at SOTM way back in July I've finally got things together enough to launch a site. I announced it on <a href="mailto:photos@openstreetmap.org">photos@openstreetmap.org</a> a few days ago to get some initial opininos but I think it's time to get a few more people looking at it. It does seem to be running a bit slow and I didn't have a huge amount of success with processing large numbers of photos earlier today but I want to get more images live on it by the time I give a talk about it on Thursday morning so I'll give you all a chance to get uploading. Please take a look at the email below for more instructions, it's definitely not perfect but it's functional for some specific uses.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">John McKerrell <<a href="mailto:john@mckerrell.net">john@mckerrell.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">20 September 2009 13:15:32 GMT+01:00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:photos@openstreetmap.org">photos@openstreetmap.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[OSM-Photos] OpenStreetView</b><br></span></div><div><snip><br><br>I think this is the first email on this list so it's quite apt, if a <br>little late, for me to announce that the OpenStreetView project that I <br>talked about at State of the Map is finally live. It's still very <br>basic and only covers parts of what I talked about then but I think it <br>has potential.<br><br>To try it out, head over to <a href="http://openstreetview.org/">http://openstreetview.org/</a><br><br>You'll need to sign up for an account, verify your email address and <br>then log in. Once in you will be able to upload photos either by <br>uploading individual files in a web form or by creating an FTP account <br>and FTPing files up. Obviously it would be nice to allow other <br>methods, they will come later.<br><br>Once you've uploaded files you'll have to wait a minute or so for them <br>to be processed, then you need to go to "your" homepage (click on your <br>username) where you can check the thumbnails to make sure you uploaded <br>the right files, then you will push the images on to moderation. You <br>can moderate them yourself which entails masking out any faces or <br>license plates or anything you think might be a privacy problem, once <br>you're happy click on the "Mark as: Safe" link and save your changes. <br>It will confirm you're happy marking it as safe and then hide the <br>images ready for you to request some more. Once three people <br>(potentially including you) have marked them as safe they will be made <br>available on the map on the front page for anyone to view, there's <br>also a basic KML feed. Even if you don't have files to upload it would <br>be useful for you to go on there anyway and moderate the photos I've <br>already uploaded and any that anyone else uploads.<br><br>Currently you can't geotag images within the site so you'll need to do <br>it before you upload, the site will read the exif headers. <br></div></blockquote><snip><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>FYI I'll be talking about this at the AGI conference in Stratford-upon- <br>Avon in the UK this week, I'd love there to be as many photos as <br>possible available for viewing by then :-)<br><br>Finally, the code is all open source, I've stuck it in github to <br>hopefully make it really easy for people to contribute back. You can <br>sign up for an account for free, clone the OpenStreetView repository, <br>make changes and then request that I take the changes into the main <br>code, which I'll be happy to do. I'm really hoping this is something <br>that will interest people and that they will get involved in extending <br>the code to get some more features in. If you want to take a look, you <br>can find it here: <a href="http://github.com/johnmckerrell/OpenStreetView">http://github.com/johnmckerrell/OpenStreetView</a><br><br>Please take a look and let me know you're thoughts, it's pretty basic <br>at the moment and I'm sure there's lots of bugs, but hopefully it's <br>going to be of some use pretty soon.<br><br>John<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Photos mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Photos@openstreetmap.org">Photos@openstreetmap.org</a><br>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/photos<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>