[OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

Adam Schreiber sadam at clemson.edu
Fri May 1 16:12:23 BST 2009


On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
> See also: http://openviewproject.org/

That's really interesting.  I have an HD camcorder and wonder if
something similar could be done since the video frames are
timestamped, they could be extracted and geotagged at appropriate
intervals.

Cheers,

Adam

> From: Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com>
> To: Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>
> Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Sent: Friday, May 1, 2009 10:15:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetView
>
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> I am actually on the prowl today for a USB video camera that I can plug into
> the computer in my car to take images as I drive, geotag them (along with
> orientation) and upload them as I go. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd
> love to hear them.
>
> Here's what I've found so far (with some help from Adam Schreiber):
>
> -
> http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=webcam&cid=5197139896207141132&sa=title#ps-sellers
> - Also, my XBox 360 webcam (when plugged in to my Ubuntu box) can scale up
> to 1280x900 at 5fps, which is almost perfect.
>
> I'm trying to refrain from using a digital still camera for two reasons:
> 1. Lots of snapshots will wear out the focus/shutter mechanism
> 2. Controlling the camera in a reliable way is hard.
>
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