[OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like application for hikers

James james2432 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 1 12:31:50 UTC 2019


some don't stitch the image either as it requires too much processing,
which you have to do with hugin or a proprietary software
i.e. the Xiaomi Sphere 360

On Sat., Jun. 1, 2019, 8:29 a.m. Dave F via talk, <talk at openstreetmap.org>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> I was thinking of purchasing a 360 camera & assumed all would have this
> feature built in. I was clearly mistaken.
>
> Can anyone recommend one which does?
>
> Cheers
> DaveF
>
> On 01/06/2019 04:58, Andrew Harvey wrote:
>
> A neat thing you can do is infill the base of the image where your
> hand/body/head are to make it less distracting. For example all my 360
> images on Mapillary do this ->https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/xfQGW4eK_ntjhRNyXDW5bQ
>
> The script I use for this ishttps://github.com/andrewharvey/lg360-mapillary-helpers/blob/master/lg360_inpaint
> which
> uses gmic's inpaint capabilitieshttp://gmic.eu/reference.shtml#inpaint_matchpatch. The script takes a
> black/white mask, then patches that part of the image on a thumbnail sized
> image (to make it faster) then composites that into the final output.
>
> On Fri, 31 May 2019 at 21:49, Nick Whitelegg <nick.whitelegg at solent.ac.uk> <nick.whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> Some of you are probably aware that way back in 2010 I started developing
> OpenTrailView , which aims to be a StreetView-like web application but
> focusing on off-road routes such as hiking trails, with crowd-sourced
> panoramas.
>
>
> Recently, due to the increasing availability of 360 cameras and the
> appearance of mature panorama APIs (e.g. Pannellum) and client-side routing
> APIs (GeoJSON Path Finder) I have restarted work on OpenTrailView and did
> an initial presentation at FOSDEM 2019 back in February.
>
>
> Since then I have done further work and OpenTrailView, while still
> incomplete, is in a state where I believe it's ready to start receiving
> contributions.
>
>
> It's available at
> https://www.opentrailview.org/
>
>
> You can get an idea of how it allows you to 'walk' along OSM ways by
> navigating in the default area (Southampton Common). There are also some
> panoramas available close to Fernhurst, West Sussex (lat 51.05, lon -0.72).
> There's a Nominatim search available if you switch to 'map' mode (see the
> map icon).
>
>
> If you signup and then login, you can contribute your own 360 panos.
> Obviously follow the usual privacy considerations (no faces, no car number
> plates) - panos will be moderated before they go live to ensure they do not
> have any privacy violations amongst other things.
>
>
> The key thing about this version is that it will use underlying OSM data
> to auto-connect panoramas. This was not done on any previous version.
>
>
> However, note that while the site will accept panos anywhere in the world,
> at present, the auto-connection facility will only work in *Europe* plus
> Turkey (I am using the Europe Geofabrik extract), as my server currently
> only stores European data. Nonetheless I have had a possible offer of
> helping with hosting costs so expansion to the entire world could well
> happen soon.
>
>
> The maps provided are rather basic, showing only highways, coastlines and
> a few selected POIs, this is due to server capacity constraints. If anyone
> is aware of a tile server I can use legitimately as a replacement, without
> violating the usage policy, please let me know.
>
>
> In similar style to OSM, panos will be copyright 'OTV360 contributors' and
> licensed under CC-by-SA. IANAL but this seems to be the most common
> practice.
>
>
> Do remember once again that this is an unfinished product but it is now in
> a state where I believe it is of interest to contributors.
>
>
> Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/nickw1/opentrailview/
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick
>
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