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

[ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen]

This is certainly a nice project and a challenge to
do, but it would take out the fun of actually 
walking /trailing if you are not surprised anymore
by the lovely view around "that corner".
"Come on dear, just a few hundred meters more and you will see that
lovely
panorama on the OTVtown you admired on OTV last week."
A map, OK but streetview for footpaths .... No

You may say, don't use OTV if you want to be surprised, and you are
probably right.
So go on and make it. The fun is yours anyway taking the 
pictures and walking the trail. ;<))
You might take a look at http://www.diy-streetview.org/  to
get an idea of the required equipment.

Gert

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[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] Namens Nick Whitelegg
Verzonden: woensdag 24 maart 2010 11:43
Aan: talk at openstreetmap.org
Onderwerp: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView: StreetView for footpaths and trails

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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