Re: [OSM-dev] Fwd: [GSoC] A GPX photo stamper.

2009-04-03 Thread Robert Scott
You should probably take note of the NL / OpenStreetPhoto guys' efforts to do SIFT on streetsigns. It isn't as simple as you might think. One thing I will say though is you might get better results looking at the Affine SIFT (ASIFT) algorithm instead. http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/~yu/resear

Re: [OSM-dev] Fwd: [GSoC] A GPX photo stamper.

2009-04-03 Thread Tom Evans
Matt Amos wrote: > sounds awesome! +1 If this could work off a straight-angle photo, but with only a mobile phone camera, that could be pretty nice to work with. Tom > cheers, > > matt > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Tijs Zwinkels > wrote: >> So, I've decided to take on this project.

Re: [OSM-dev] Fwd: [GSoC] A GPX photo stamper.

2009-04-03 Thread Matt Amos
sounds awesome! cheers, matt On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Tijs Zwinkels wrote: > So, I've decided to take on this project. :) > I'm currently writing my proposal, which I'll post to the wiki and submit at > the GSoC site in 1 ~ 2 hrs time. (let me know if you want to see the > intermediate

Re: [OSM-dev] Fwd: [GSoC] A GPX photo stamper.

2009-04-03 Thread Tijs Zwinkels
So, I've decided to take on this project. :) I'm currently writing my proposal, which I'll post to the wiki and submit at the GSoC site in 1 ~ 2 hrs time. (let me know if you want to see the intermediate versions, I can just post to the wiki whatever I have already) Just bouncing a few last ideas,

Re: [OSM-dev] Fwd: [GSoC] A GPX photo stamper.

2009-04-02 Thread Philip Shipley
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Matt Amos wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: > > I think stitching is something that is lets say 'available', referencing > > images is too. But I would really love to see some thing like robust > > automatic traffic sign recognition,

[OSM-dev] Fwd: [GSoC] A GPX photo stamper.

2009-04-01 Thread Shaun McDonald
FYI I just sent this to the osm dev list re one of the Google Summer of Code projects. Begin forwarded message: From: Shaun McDonald Date: 1 April 2009 17:20:28 BST To: Karl Newman Cc: Tom Evans , dev@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] [GSoC] A GPX photo stamper. On 1 Apr 2009, at 1

Re: [OSM-dev] Fwd: [GSoC] A GPX photo stamper.

2009-04-01 Thread Matt Amos
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: > I think stitching is something that is lets say 'available', referencing > images is too. But I would really love to see some thing like robust > automatic traffic sign recognition, or maybe even streetname OCR. > Ambitious but certainly do

Re: [OSM-dev] Fwd: [GSoC] A GPX photo stamper.

2009-04-01 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Tijs Zwinkels wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: > > > I know this is most definitely not the first time that geotagging photo's > with gps data has been attempted. You are right... ;) http://code.google.com/p/gpicsync/wiki/OtherGeocodingSoftware

Re: [OSM-dev] Fwd: [GSoC] A GPX photo stamper.

2009-04-01 Thread Chris Jones
Tijs Zwinkels wrote: > Yet, if I have a bunch of pictures that I want to geotag on my Linux > desktop, I basically have no idea where to go. Fact remains that most > of the software out there looks dodgy and is closed source, or is hard > to use. Digikam does it - http://www.digikam.org As does

[OSM-dev] Fwd: [GSoC] A GPX photo stamper.

2009-04-01 Thread Tijs Zwinkels
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: > > > Could you tell us what the difference is with probably any application is > that you type in google 'gps tagger', maybe it is the term webbased, but > doesn't that assume we host those photos too? > > Lets say I do see applications tha