<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Because I'm convinced it needs a level of moderation that would end up requiring that we host the photos anyway. Also flickr (for instance) costs money above 200 (I think) photos. I would hope that someone (possibly me) would write something to let you suck images in from flickr when the OSV API can provide for that.<div><br><div><div>On 21 Sep 2009, at 22:55, Ian Dees wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">This is a great idea, but why not just use Flickr or some similar photo site that offers an API for geotagged photos?<br><br>The only unique thing we'd need to add is a method of recording the orientation (X degrees from magnetic north, Y degrees inclination, Z degrees field of view) of the photo at a given position (if known) so that we can later build a StreetView-type interface for these images.<br>
<br>Such information could be stored with Flickr's API as machine tags.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:45 PM, John McKerrell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@mckerrell.net">john@mckerrell.net</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;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;">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" target="_blank">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>
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