[OSM-talk] Own aerial photos

[Ian Dees]

On Sep 25, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Rob <rob at coolbegin.com> wrote:

> 2009/9/24 Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Matt Williams <lists at milliams.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Take a look at http://milliams.com/verticalitymetre/,
>>>> http://milliams.com/verticalitymetre/stats.php and
>>>> http://milliams.com/verticalitymetre/map.html. These were some  
>>>> tools I
>>>> threw together to rate the photos on how vertical they were and  
>>>> show
>>>> the results on a map.
>>>>
>>>> As you will see, Stratford-upon-Avon is in the Midlands, not too  
>>>> far
>>>> from Coventry and Birmingham.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks. I had found the correct city (you guys and your -upon-Avon
>>> citynames :-) ) and was trying to track down where each image was  
>>> taken.
>>
>> A few hours spent in Microsoft Research's map crunching app and I  
>> get this:
>> http://osm.mapki.com/cruncher/
>>
>> I didn't let it render all the tiles (had to head home), and the  
>> interface
>> is the ugly Bing API, but you get the idea...
>
>
> Cool, but it's no WMS server i guess.. so potlatch can't do anything  
> with it..
> i'm playing with qgis and geoserver to do the same

Cool, the more people working on it the better. I was just posting it  
because i wanted to point out how easy it was to get fairly good  
results with mapcruncher. The program generates tiles that (with some  
filename manipulation) would work very well with JOSM and Potlatch.