On 10 Jun 2007, at 00:46, 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.
yeah I threw this idea around at wherecamp. My model would get 10
people to pitch in $200 each, buy a laptop and 5-6 cameras. Build a
magnetic mount , plug in a GPS, write some glue with autopano-sift
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~nowozin/autopano-sift/
and automatically upload the data. Each of the 10 donators can drive
it around their area or whatever. The entire system should be totally
automated, USB throughput and battery are going to be the issues, and
the latter shouldl be easy via the cigarette lighter
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.
The viewer is the last problem, you're just panning an image in the
simplest case.
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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