I'm going out on a limb here to say that I think doing open street views is (primarily) a project in hacking community rather than code.
Panorama tools for stichting/manipulating images seem to be a solved problem (where 'solved' means it is either solved, or there is a large community actively working to solve the open issues)... For example, Panotools has five Google Summer of Code students working on things... http://panotools.sourceforge.net/ We'll need to create some glue to automate things, but the heavy lifting code exists... so what are the open questions? -setting up multliple cameras -exposure control for the different cameras -capturing location - 'obviously' GPS, but I suspect we'd like AGPS resolution, and probably a compass independent of the GPS track (ie. built in compass seems okay, but counting on the track log requires you to be moving , and isn't all that accurate. :-/ -Processing images-panotools seems to have what we need. -storage-initially a random server will work. -API to access imagery -> seems like 'a few scripts' -viewer - panorama viewers exist already, but we would like some cool map based interface next to the panoramas. These don't seem like hard questions, but I don't have off the cuff answers for all of them. Any questions I'm missing? Any answers? Cheers, Rich ------ A couple other cool links: http://www.bruno.postle.net/neatstuff/ip-slicer/ 3d physical printing http://www.philohome.com/rhombicuboctahedron/rhombicuboctahedron.htm On 6/12/07, Tom Longson (nym) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Having run http://igargoyle.com/ since 2002, I don't see that happening anytime soon. Anyways, this is digressing a lot, anyone have experience setting up multiple cameras to capture panoramas? Anyone have experience stitching these images? Thanks, Tom Longson (nym) http://igargoyle.com/streetview/ On 6/12/07, Andrew Larcombe < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12 Jun 2007, at 21:54, SteveC wrote: > > > > > On 12 Jun 2007, at 19:59, Artem Pavlenko wrote: > > > >> This is how you might want to mount your cameras: > >> > >> http://www.yotta.tv/ > >> > >> Anyway, building panoramas is not really interesting. Think bigger > >> and start building 3D. > > > > As a more general thing... I don't understand 3D as a UI. > > > > I spent a ton of time in 3D when the new hotness was VRML. I wrote > > things to take a set of photos and magically turn them in to models > > and so on. At its base it seemed like you spent 1000% more > > development effort to make a 3d model of your building/city for a > > 1% improvement in usability. You got some factor of whizzyness, > > it's a great educational tool, but no real ROI in its own space. > > > I think the problem is we're still using mostly 2d technology to > interact with these computer things which makes a 2d gui more > natural. 3d will be great when we've all ditched our trackpads and in > favour of immersive hardware - 3d headcams & gloves. Or a holodeck - > whichever comes sooner. > > Cheers, > > A > --- > Andrew Larcombe > Freelance Geospatial, Database & Web Programming > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > icq: 306690163 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
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