[OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

[John McKerrell]

Because I'm convinced it needs a level of moderation that would end up  
requiring that we host the photos anyway. Also flickr (for instance)  
costs money above 200 (I think) photos. I would hope that someone  
(possibly me) would write something to let you suck images in from  
flickr when the OSV API can provide for that.

On 21 Sep 2009, at 22:55, Ian Dees wrote:

> This is a great idea, but why not just use Flickr or some similar  
> photo site that offers an API for geotagged photos?
>
> The only unique thing we'd need to add is a method of recording the  
> orientation (X degrees from magnetic north, Y degrees inclination, Z  
> degrees field of view) of the photo at a given position (if known)  
> so that we can later build a StreetView-type interface for these  
> images.
>
> Such information could be stored with Flickr's API as machine tags.
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:45 PM, John McKerrell <john at mckerrell.net>  
> wrote:
> 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.
>

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