[Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

Peter Miller peter.miller at itoworld.com
Mon Sep 14 09:28:56 BST 2009


On 14 Sep 2009, at 08:51, John McKerrell wrote:

> JR lives just around the corner from me so I should be able to get a  
> copy of the photos onto my laptop. I'm going to the AGI conference  
> next week so if anyone wanted they could then take a copy from me. I  
> might even be able to host them though as he says, it's liable to be  
> just a difficult to navigate collection of filenames.
>
Yes please - do bring the images to the conference for me and anyone  
else. Thanks.


> JR - did you take a GPS trace while you were up in the plane? Oddly  
> enough that might help me with the hosting.

The images on Flickr are geocoded so I assume he does have a gps trace.



Regards,


Peter


>
> John
>
>
> On 13 Sep 2009, at 23:24, John Robert Peterson wrote:
>
>> For whoever asked for more wide area images, I went through the  
>> collection and picked some more. As such there is a batch of 128 of  
>> them uploading as we speak, I will put them in a proper set once  
>> they are done, but in the mean time anyone desperate can look here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thingomy/
>>
>> I have all of these at 12MP (or for the few images taken with my  
>> backup camera 10MP) if anyone wants one or 2 of them at full res,  
>> let me know, I can email them to you.
>>
>> Please let me know how much use these are for people -- I expect  
>> the main use for them will be visual reference when making edits.
>>
>> @peter -- It's funny -- I picked a diferent view of the same peice  
>> of the town to warp.
>>
>> I suspect that there is a hill in that logation messing things up.
>>
>> I would say that rectifying images in this way only works in areas  
>> where we already have a lot of detail, as such it's only really  
>> useful for special purposes like adding extra fine detail. Would  
>> other people agree with me there, or am I over reacting again?
>>
>>
>> @franky -- thanks.
>>
>> RE tresspassing, that is the only thing that I miss after the move  
>> from scotland, we have the "Land and Countryside Act" which  
>> explicitly states that you can go pretty much anywhere you like,  
>> there are of course a bunch of exceptions, but in this case, you  
>> would be perfectly within your rights to trace out hedges to your  
>> hearts content.
>>
>> 2009/9/13 Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com>
>>
>> On 13 Sep 2009, at 22:05, Frankie Roberto wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 2009/9/13 John Robert Peterson <jrp.crs at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> I'm not planning to put them all online in the short term -- while  
>>> flickr would be able ot hold all 10GB of data, it would be an  
>>> almost imposable ot access format.
>>>
>>> The photos look great btw. Such a nice day for it!
>>>
>>> Thing this one is my fav so far: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thingomy/3909552809/in/set-72157622214942341/
>>>
>>> It'll be great to be able to tag individual fields and hedges -  
>>> this is almost impossible to do from the ground (unless you're a  
>>> fan of trespassing).
>>
>> I have been playing with warper and here is my first result. It  
>> seems to need a good number of control points but it is certainly a  
>> useful tool. Can one rectify a number of images and then stitch  
>> them together into a single image that can be used in Potlatch I  
>> wonder?
>> http://warper.geothings.net/maps/preview/1204
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Frankie
>>>
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