On 21/09/17 22:33, Simon Poole wrote:
>
>
> while I don't have any first hand knowledge specifically about the
> UK, but continental Europe has a largish number of companies that do
> that kind of photographic asset management professionally (and which
> seem to have an at least half working business model because they
> still exist). The results of the surveys they do tend to not be open
> to the general public for privacy reasons and so on, but getting our
> hands on that kind of material would be great. Naturally these kind of
> things tend to be "slightly" more expensive than using a smart phone
> camera.
>
I work for a company which is starting to do moderately large-scale
survey work including 30MP georeferenced 90% sphere image capture in
rural areas (generally in South/Midlands England). Not asset management,
so we take photos everywhere in our areas of interest, which are usually
villages and strung-out houses around them.
While sharing every picture is probably unthinkable due to volume of
data and other concerns, if a consensus as to a useful place to put some
panoramic images emerges (and that has an API/licensing model we can
work with) I'll certainly push for us to release what we can to OSM
contributors if it would be useful.
As an aside to this conversation, where are photos most useful for OSM
contributions? Just built-up areas or road junctions etc? If we were
designing a selector given a bunch of different capture locations, what
would produce the most useful images for map editing?
Cheers,
James
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