[Talk-GB] BBC & Microsoft gig in Ely, Sunday June 10

[Laurence Penney]

Sunday is June 10, sorry!

-- L


Laurence Penney wrote:
> I thought OSM GB people might be interested in this:
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/britain/photocollection/index.shtml
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/britain/buses/ely.shtml
> 
> The BBC and Microsoft are encouraging people to take lots of photos of 
> Ely Cathedral, to be CC-licensed and then built into a whizzy 
> Photosynth set by MS. Sunday's is the first of several similar events 
> around the country.
> 
> Strictly, this is non-geographic since the location of bunch of images 
> cannot be determined from them alone. The geometry that is determined 
> is on arbitrary xyz axes, with scale arbitrary too.
> 
> I'm interested in the IP aspects of whether MS intend geometries 
> determined by Photosynth to be freely sharable with others, for use in 
> other 3D photo viewers.
> 
> Anyway, it would be good to meet up with other OSMers in Ely. Mobile 
> 07808 951894. I'll get there around 11.
> 
> -- Laurence