[OSM-newbies] Streetview / OSM Integration

[Andrew Salzberg]

As a mostly newbie myself, I have been following this conversation
passively but just had a chance to look at your tool and I think it has the
potential to be pretty amazing (has anyone tried something similar
previously? forgive my ignorance)

Obviously there's been huge growth (despite challenges and some opposition
for valid reasons, in certain cases) in map editing based on aerial imagery
- with the iD editor only the most prominent recent example. What's missing
from aerial is all the detail you're trying to collect - addresses, street
features, building heights, etc etc which have required on the ground
mapping.

But now - with your "DIY google streetview"  - we could have a way to start
having folks adding these features without necessarily walking around
mapping themselves. Am I right that volunteers might be able to strap a
similar camera to the roof of a car (or bike, etc), drive around town,
upload the photos, and then have others (if not themselves) use these
tracks to update the map? (in a manner basically similar to the way GPX
traces have been used in the past)?

If so - sign me up. I'd be curious what type of camera you're using (how
expensive, etc) and if you've thought about how others might upload
imagery, how a standard license for the imagery might be worked out for new
contributors, etc.

Anyway - looking at your tool got me excited for the possibilities.
congrats on the work so far.

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Tac Tacelosky <tacman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's a link to our current Streetview tool, showing an area where
> there's very little OSM data:
>
>
> http://www.customstreetview.com/route/public/12#heading=55.14876886478911&pano=130428151423&pitch=-2.9371867297722107&zoom=0
>
> You can see that we were experimenting with a "Quick Add" feature beneath
> the image, the idea was set the zoom, pitch and heading, center an object,
> then quickly identify it -- "stop sign", "bike rack", "sidewalk cutout" or
> a very simple form "shop: nail salon", "restaurant, name=Al's Pizza", etc.
>
> But at the moment that part is getting complicated, so I simply have a
> link to OSM in the lower left.
>
> Feedback welcome.
>
> Tac
>
> PS Will add the ODbL license text for the images shortly!
>
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