[OSM-talk] OpenTrailView

[John Mitchell]

Would it make sense for the OSV and OTV projects to be combined so
that you have one place for images?

John

On 7/30/10, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would at least talk to John (the openstreetview admin). OSV seems to
> have active users (I just moderated over 100 images) but there has
> been no development work in over 6 months and to be honest it could
> use some. The interface is still pretty basic and pictures can not be
> tagged or have any metadata added except what is already in the EXIF
> data. So you can't indicate which direction the camera was pointing
> like it seems OTV allows you to do which is kind of important for
> street level imagery. Also, there ARE a lot of trail pictures being
> uploaded to OSV. So ideally I would love to see OSV and OTV work
> together if possible.
>
> I will try to ride a trail or two here in town this weekend and get
> some pictures so I can try OTV for myself.
>
> Toby
>
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Nick Whitelegg
> <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the ideas - the point below was raised by at least a couple of
>> people.
>>
>>>*Bulk upload*
>>
>>>That last one is the key to a successful project, in my opinion. It would
>>> be
>>>very nice if support for this "contributor-process" would be supported.
>>
>> I've found a JavaScript library to do this - see the blog
>> http://www.free-map.org.uk/wordpress.
>>
>>>I didn't visit SOTM, so this might be answered already, but how does this
>>>project differ from other openstreetmap based projects that also aims to
>>>collect a database of georeferenced photos? Is there a need for several
>>>similiar projects? (i haven't really looked at the other projects)
>>
>> The main one I'm also aware of is OpenStreetView - however, this isn't so
>> much focused on off-road photos and has more of an emphasis on tagged
>> photos.
>>
>> OpenStreetView and OpenTrailView are working on different aspects of the
>> same sort of thing, so there's no reason they can't come together in the
>> future.
>>
>> Nick
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John J. Mitchell