[OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

[John McKerrell]

So, after talking about my ideas for an OpenStreetView project at SOTM  
way back in July I've finally got things together enough to launch a  
site. I announced it on photos at openstreetmap.org a few days ago to get  
some initial opininos but I think it's time to get a few more people  
looking at it. It does seem to be running a bit slow and I didn't have  
a huge amount of success with processing large numbers of photos  
earlier today but I want to get more images live on it by the time I  
give a talk about it on Thursday morning so I'll give you all a chance  
to get uploading. Please take a look at the email below for more  
instructions, it's definitely not perfect but it's functional for some  
specific uses.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: John McKerrell <john at mckerrell.net>
> Date: 20 September 2009 13:15:32 GMT+01:00
> To: photos at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [OSM-Photos] OpenStreetView
> <snip>
>
> I think this is the first email on this list so it's quite apt, if a
> little late, for me to announce that the OpenStreetView project that I
> talked about at State of the Map is finally live. It's still very
> basic and only covers parts of what I talked about then but I think it
> has potential.
>
> To try it out, head over to http://openstreetview.org/
>
> You'll need to sign up for an account, verify your email address and
> then log in. Once in you will be able to upload photos either by
> uploading individual files in a web form or by creating an FTP account
> and FTPing files up. Obviously it would be nice to allow other
> methods, they will come later.
>
> Once you've uploaded files you'll have to wait a minute or so for them
> to be processed, then you need to go to "your" homepage (click on your
> username) where you can check the thumbnails to make sure you uploaded
> the right files, then you will push the images on to moderation. You
> can moderate them yourself which entails masking out any faces or
> license plates or anything you think might be a privacy problem, once
> you're happy click on the "Mark as: Safe" link and save your changes.
> It will confirm you're happy marking it as safe and then hide the
> images ready for you to request some more. Once three people
> (potentially including you) have marked them as safe they will be made
> available on the map on the front page for anyone to view, there's
> also a basic KML feed. Even if you don't have files to upload it would
> be useful for you to go on there anyway and moderate the photos I've
> already uploaded and any that anyone else uploads.
>
> Currently you can't geotag images within the site so you'll need to do
> it before you upload, the site will read the exif headers.
<snip>
>
> FYI I'll be talking about this at the AGI conference in Stratford- 
> upon-
> Avon in the UK this week, I'd love there to be as many photos as
> possible available for viewing by then :-)
>
> Finally, the code is all open source, I've stuck it in github to
> hopefully make it really easy for people to contribute back. You can
> sign up for an account for free, clone the OpenStreetView repository,
> make changes and then request that I take the changes into the main
> code, which I'll be happy to do. I'm really hoping this is something
> that will interest people and that they will get involved in extending
> the code to get some more features in. If you want to take a look, you
> can find it here: http://github.com/johnmckerrell/OpenStreetView
>
> Please take a look and let me know you're thoughts, it's pretty basic
> at the moment and I'm sure there's lots of bugs, but hopefully it's
> going to be of some use pretty soon.
>
> John
>
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