[OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

[Nick Whitelegg]

Hello everyone,

Google Street View got me thinking that it might be a good idea to explore 
the possibility of an open source street view database, which could be 
linked in with OSM. The idea would be that people could take panorama 
photos of streets in their area and upload them, and so potentially 
produce an open equivalent to Street View, which could perhaps be called 
"OpenStreetView". Another area which Google don't seem to be covering is 
the possibility of countryside panoramas which could allow people to 
preview a walk before they set out or potentially be used as a navigation 
tool in a mobile application.

I have put together an extremely simple facility to allow users to upload 
panoramas and view their location on a slippy map at 
http://www.openstreetview.org.uk/. (Sorry about .uk but .org, .com, .net 
appear to be already taken). There's also a blog there. It's not so much a 
working application as yet, but I thought I'd let people know so that they 
can make comments.

Nick