[Osmf-talk] [OSM-dev] low altitude aerial images layer at OpenStreetMap

Tue Aug 25 23:22:25 UTC 2015

+1 to openaerialmap and opendronemap

Mapknitter.org also connects your imagery into osm editors
On Aug 25, 2015 11:01 AM, "Oleksiy Muzalyev" <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>
wrote:

> Hi Blake,
>
> A quadrocopter cannot be flown higher than 150 meters due to regulations.
> Usually a flight in a city happens happens like this. I carefully select a
> takeoff & landing ground. It could be a lawn in a park, a grass area, empty
> construction site, etc. preferably early in the morning.
>
> I switch on the GoPro to make one photo per second, then I take off and
> fly only above this empty area. So practically it is out of the question to
> fly above a city freely to make orthorectified imagery of the whole city.
> However panoramic low altitude (50 - 150 meters) aerial photos could be
> shot in all directions and are complimentary to satellite imagery. And it
> is possible to find such an area for takeoff and safe landing almost
> everywhere.
>
> As for programming this feature, an image is just uploaded, coordinates
> and camera direction are saved in a database for this image. Maybe also a
> rating system.
>
> Prosumer UAVs progressed a lot this year. Now it has a Fail Safe -
> returning to the point where it took-off automatically, Home-Lock, - if a
> pilot lost orientation, it starts moving to the pilot the shortest way,
> Course-Lock - independent of yaw, forward remains forward (very useful at
> altitude higher than 100 meters, when it is hard to see the UAV's
> orientation). So it is relatively easy and safe to pilot. It also has now
> self-tightening propellers. I takes about a minute to put them on for a
> flight and remove for a compact transportation.
>
> Also this year the GoPro 4 Session camera appeared. It weighs only 72
> grams. F450 DJI can easily carry two such cameras. Opposite to the
> StreetView approach it is not necessary to walk or drive every street to
> film it. A dozen or two of flights in good weather will cover the entire
> city.
>
> And as I already said the system is very robust. Even if a crash happens,
> having built it from an ARF kit oneself makes it just a mater of several
> minutes to exchange a spare part or two. If there is a special layer for 50
> - 150 meters aerial photos on the OSM map, it is quite realistic that
> people could start shooting such aerial photos and upload. I hope to learn
> more on this subject at the conference next month.
>
> Best regards,
> Oleksiy
>
> On 25/08/15 14:58, Blake Girardot wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> OpenAerialMap is designed to take georeferenced aerial imagery and make it
> publicly available for mapping.
>
> OpenDroneMap is processing only software, but you do end up with a
> stitched together georeferenced, orthorectified image and point cloud
> files.
>
> http://openaerialmap.org/
>
> http://opendronemap.github.io/odm/
>
> Cheers,
> Blake
>
>
>
> On 8/25/2015 8:49 AM, Jaak Laineste wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Btw, what is current state of special services to share the data?
> openstreetphoto is dead, mapilliary could almost be used [1], but it is
> not really optimised for it. With drone imagery software you get 3D
> models “for free” as part of processing/SfM, you often (but not always)
> georeference your data etc. Anyone knows about  on opendronephoto
> project yet?
>
> Sharing with plain photo sharing service just does not feel right.
>
> Jaak
>
> [1] http://blog.mapillary.com/technology,/update/2014/05/20/drones.html
>
>
> 2015-08-25 8:44 GMT+03:00 Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch
> <mailto:oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch> <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>>:
>
>     Good morning,
>
>     Here are some of panoramic aerial images which I made in Odessa,
>     Ukraine, with the quadrocopter F450 DJI (flight controller Naza V2
>     with GPS) and camera GoPro 4 Session. One such an image may cover
>     several square kilometers. It does not substitute satellite imagery,
>     but provides useful information for mapping: building levels,
>     land-use, etc.
>
>     And it is not necessary to have hundreds of photos for just one
>     street as with a Street-View approach. So it is not necessary to
>     have the newest servers for such a layer.
>
>     City of Odessa, Ukraine:
>     https://goo.gl/photos/Jnt4TaXuxyw7j6kR8
>
>     and town of Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi:
>     https://goo.gl/photos/ve3NPBSg98v46n5J7
>
>     to get the HD photo download it, do not save from the browser screen.
>
>     <https://goo.gl/photos/Jnt4TaXuxyw7j6kR8>
> <https://goo.gl/photos/Jnt4TaXuxyw7j6kR8>F450 DJI is assembled from
>     the ARF (almost ready to fly kit), so it is easy to upgrade and
>     repair. It is a robust flying platform. Let alone camera GoPro 4
>     Session.
>
>     Mapillary accept aerial images but a flight should be only 4 - 5
>     meters above the ground. I published several aerial images on Google
>     Maps though, and the number of views is in thousands. Images are to
>     be geo-tagged before publishing to Google Maps.
>
>     There will be the conference "How drones changing your business" in
>     Lausanne, Switzerland, on September 14th and 15th 2015:
>     <http://droneapps.co/> <http://droneapps.co/>http://droneapps.co/ .
> Among attendees are
>     DJI, Airbus, Lufthansa, SenseFly, DB Bahn, SNCF, and others.
>
>     I am also experimenting with fixed-wing UAVs. It is much harder to
>     learn to pilot well, but a fixed-wing UAV is capable by now to fly
>     about 200 km along a waypoint route with an autopilot.
>
>     So the idea is to implement such a panoramic aerial imagery layer at
>     the OSM.
>
>     Best regards,
>     Oleksiy
>
>
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