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

Kathleen Lu kathleen.lu at mapbox.com
Fri May 31 18:31:52 UTC 2019


Looks neat, Nick!

I will say that given that OSM is under ODbL, which is not compatible with
CC-BY-SA (see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/ODbL_Compatibility)
I would suggest that you consider using ODbL as the license instead of
CC-BY-SA.

Best,
Kathleen

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:22 AM Milo van der Linden <milo at dogodigi.net>
wrote:

> Cool! It looks and interacts awesome.
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2019, 18:43 Nick Whitelegg <nick.whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks! Actually used Pannellum: https://pannellum.org/
>>
>>
>> <https://pannellum.org/>
>>
>> Note that there is one little issue, which I thought I'd resolved, but
>> has recurred today, and *might* be down to Pannellum: occasionally (and
>> inconsistently, i.e. there isn't a sequence of actions which causes it to
>> happen) if you click on a camera icon when in map mode it doesn't load the
>> panorama. Most of the time it's fine though.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Milo van der Linden <milo at dogodigi.net>
>> *Sent:* 31 May 2019 17:20:57
>> *To:* Nick Whitelegg
>> *Cc:* osm-talk
>> *Subject:* Re: [OSM-talk] OpenTrailView 360 - StreetView-like
>> application for hikers
>>
>> Nice! Did you create your own panoviewer or did you use
>> https://www.marzipano.net/?
>>
>> Op vr 31 mei 2019 om 13:46 schreef Nick Whitelegg <
>> nick.whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>:
>>
>>
>> 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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