[Osmf-talk] Change to WMF Terms of Use: Requirements for disclosure

[Shaun McDonald]

Mapillary are doing what you are basically looking for: http://www.mapillary.com/map

Shaun

On 18 Jun 2014, at 18:05, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch> wrote:

> I mean multimedia mostly related to mapping. Say, panorama image of a
> hotel, or an aerial video of an university or a shopping center. This
> technology is becoming readily available.
> 
> Google Street View images are part of the map. But they are not always
> done too well. Sometime a required building is covered by trees'
> branches, or it is too far away, etc.
> 
> It is clear that nowadays it is prohibitively expensive to store all
> these images and videos. But what if in a couple of years the capacity
> of hard disks grow again 100 times?
> 
> brgds
> Oleskiy
> 
> On 18.06.2014 17:32, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>> On 18 June 2014 10:50, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch> wrote:
>> 
>>> I would not mind even more data, not only textual, but multimedia data too:
>>> photos, video, panoramas, etc.
>>> 
>>> So it will be not just an object on the map, but the whole information
>>> article for this object, accessible via single click, searchable via search
>>> engines.
>>> 
>>> It would make the map sort of an encyclopedia
>> Why, when others do that so well? We would do better to put our
>> energies into mapping,  and link to Wikipedia/ Wikidata/ Wikimedia
>> Commons for those who wish to find history, images and so on.
>> 
> 
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