[OSM-talk] The aim of OpenStreetView

andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 12:21:17 GMT 2012


On 6 January 2012 12:04, LM_1 <flukas.robot+osm en gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> What is the aim of OpenStreetView - Is it a potential Google
> StreetView counterpart intended for viewing by general public (And
> therefore all photos must be nice, high technical quality, blue sky,
> around noon) ORIs it a help tool for OSM mappers (and therefore it is
> important what can be used as mapping support and the photos can be
> less nice, bad weather, dark - as long as they are informative)?

It's something in between I think.  In terms of Google maps it would
be the counterpart of panoramio maybe?  See
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetView

There's another project called OpenStreetPhoto with the aim you
mentioned second.

Cheers



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