My one year old Samsung Galaxy S3 has got the ability to geotag photos. If there would be an app which can use such a geotagged photo and link it to an OSM POI nearby, than I would go for that. Upload it under ODbL, no copyright issues, Cost is a secondary thing which can be solved.
Cheers, Johan 2013/6/23 Bryce Nesbitt <[email protected]> > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Tac Tacelosky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Has the idea of an image archive for OSM been brought up before? I >> know about openstreetview.org, but as far as I can see, it's mostly >> geotagged photos, there's not a lot of metadata there, nor integration >> explicitly with OSM. Plus, the project seems to be inactive. > > > It comes down to cost and focus. > > The cost, into perpetuity, of storing thousands of images is substantial. > The organization would have to make that a priority. > Projects like openstreetview.org don't scale, and are not sustainable > over the long term. > > Plus images from wikimedia commons satisfy a huge fraction of the current > use cases for images attached to osm objects > (need a picture of a particular castle? Wikimedia commons probably has > it). > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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