[OSM-Photos] One-Shot Panoramic Photos

[Josh Doe]

On Thursday, February 21, 2013, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As you might remember I presented a project of mine entitled
> "OpenTrailView" in Girona back in 2010. The idea was to produce a Google
> StreetView-like experience for outdoor users such as walkers.
>
> Unfortunately the project has become somewhat dead-in-the-water, mostly
> due to the large time investment in producing individual panoramas (5 mins
> or so to take the panorama then perhaps 20 or more to do the stitching,
> cropping etc to upload to the site).
>
> I'd like to get this project going again at some point but the sheer
> effort of creating panoramas would discourage input I suspect. So does
> anyone have opinions on alternative ways of creating panoramas?
>
> A bit of research suggests one-shot lenses are available but reviews on
> the web regarding their quality are generally poor. Does anyone have any
> opinions on ths?
>

While not perfect, I've found that smartphone apps like Microsoft
Photosynth produce surprisingly good panoramas with almost no effort. Not
sure which apps let you export the results in a standard format though.
While resulting images suffer the usual problems with camera phones,
particularly in low light, I think it's the only way you can get a large
number of people to contribute panoramas. Other solutions are expensive,
time consuming, and/or difficult.

Josh

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