[OSM-talk] Pic4Carto: efficient pictures viewer for micro-mapping

Greg Morgan dr.kludge.gm at gmail.com
Sat Nov 26 17:38:54 UTC 2016


On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 9:43 AM, PanierAvide <panieravide at riseup.net> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> There are more and more street-view pictures which are under open license
> (Mapillary, Wikimedia Commons, Flickr, and OpenStreetView which is changing
> its name). These pictures are a gold mine containing a lot of interesting
> informations for OpenStreetMap, however they are not fully used yet. Maybe
> one explanation of this is that every source has its own web portal, not
> always simple to use or fast to load.
>
> In order to get the best of all pictures, I created a tool to help mappers
> named Pic4Carto. It allows to see all recent pictures from Mapillary,
> Flickr and Wikimedia Commons, on a given area, as a slideshow (pictures
> showing one by one automatically). The goal is to watch fast all the data
> on the area, to discover features we want to add in OpenStreetMap (for
> example benches, fire hydrants, billboards, maxspeed signs...). The tool is
> available here :
>
> http://projets.pavie.info/pic4carto/
>
> PanierAvide,

That's very nice.  Your system takes 100 pounds of pain out of using
Mapillary.  There seems to be a few missing items but I cannot put my
finger on them.  The simplicity is Pic4Carto's best feature.

Regards,
Greg
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