[OSM-talk] OpenTrailView: StreetView for footpaths and trails

[Milo van der Linden]

Nice,

Will the source code be available in one of the svn repositories?

- The first thing I would like to see is a function to click a location 
on a map to set lat/lon instead of entering it.
- Another would be to read EXIF information regarding coordinates 
instead of entering it

About the photo's, are they supposed to be panorama's, or 360 images?

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (*posted to talk in case of interest, but all follow ups will be on the 
> Photos list*)
>
> Having been, I have to admit, just a little impressed with the current 
> state of Google Street View in the UK (i.e. it's now complete), my 
> interest in developing "StreetView for footpaths" has been resurrected.
>
> So I'd like to announce the initial version of OpenTrailView at :
>
> http://www.free-map.org.uk/otv/
>
> OpenTrailView (OTV) is a little different to OpenStreetView, but there are 
> significant overlaps. OTV focuses on panoramas, i.e. 360 degree 
> photographic views from a particular point, and is solely concerned with 
> off-road views, not street views. The eventual aim is to build something 
> like StreetView for the world's footpaths, trails and publicly-accessible 
> wild places.
>
> At the moment it's pretty basic. Nonetheless you can:
>
> * Submit a panorama. 
> * Align a panorama with a footpath. There are two sample panoramas in the 
> system already, one is just north of the default view, one is a few miles 
> southeast. You can rotate the camera icon by dragging it, to align the 
> panorama with the footpath it's on. One of the two samples is a street 
> view BTW, but that's just for testing purposes.
> * View a panorama by moving the mouse over the camera icon.
>
> Current immediate future plans are:
>
> * Try and standardise on the dimensions of the panorama in pixels. This is 
> more a photography than a software issue - so any ideas here would be most 
> welcome!
> * More in the way of instructions
> * Take a good sample of panoramas in a countryside area near me (New 
> Forest) and actually start developing a StreetView-like app.
>
> I realise this is somewhat re-writing what's already been done in the main 
> OpenStreetView site, but TBH Rails and me don't mix that well and I 
> figured it would be easier for me to start from scratch using PHP :-)
>
> Nick
>
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