Hm. Allegheny County (PAu has pictures of every structure online for tax
purposes. I guess I should look into license info and see if anything can
be made programmatically from their imagery if it's legally usable and
useful.
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Tom Longson (nym) wrote:
Wankers, etc,
Rich Gibson and I have been talking about doing a
map of panoramas, and he
registered the domain OpenStreetView.com. I
personally am interested in
views other than the street, creating a database
of panoramas in places
where the GoogleVan could never penetrate. I am
able to do panoramas using
traditional methods, including tripods, the
Panosaurus (a panoramic tripod
head), and a traditional camera, but there are
some hanging bits in my mind
in this scenario.
For starters, I would like to have an open source
viewer. Does anyone have a
flash viewer that is OSS, or has the expertise to
make one? Obviously QTVR
is an option, but any controls for movement have
to be outside of the viewer
then, and it limits the ability to add dynamic
links in the UI ala Google
Street View's viewer.
Secondly, I see a need to be able to create a
panoramic camera that can
either be mounted on a backpack or on a small
wagon. This would allow us to
capture data in some great areas, and provide that
wealth of data instead of
just a few places. This would also be great for
Open Street Maps, because it
would give the mapmakers additional metadata from
the ground to identify
features.
Anyone interested in taking on this challenge with
us?
nym / Tom Longson
http://igargoyle.com/streetview/
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