On 9 Dec 2009, at 18:39, Andy Allan wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Andy Allan <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Where did we end up with the Stratford imagery in the end? When I >> left >> things, I'd made a layer containing about 7 images, made tiles from >> them, and stuck them online. > > I guessed from the silence that nobody had any further plans. :-) > Having some spare time on my hands right now (ahem!) I've grabbed as > many warped images off of mapwarper and made a new tile layer, and > I've added some more documentation to the wiki. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon/Imagery > > Anyone fancy collecting more imagery for any other towns?
Thanks Andy, your wiki page is very useful and it is also good to see the imagery in Potlatch. Is the location of image encoded in the image somehow, or how else does PotLatch know where to load it? When I tried warping the images I did feel that the algorithm used by warper was possibly a bit suspect - the warping suddenly went completely wrong as one added more control points in a rather counter- intuitive way. At present I feel that it was a great experiment, but that we either need much more vertical images which will be hard to achieve without a plane without specialist equipment or we need a smarter warper. Someone suggested at the time that it would be good to have a warper where one could lay down a way on the imagery and associate it with a way on the map - that could be hugely beneficial. Anyone fancy giving it a go? We also need to compare the cost of our own imagery with the cost of purchasing satellite imagery and I feel that purchased imagery will often win (from $14 per sq km). The West Midlands guys are getting organised to host purchased photography for that area. Regards, Peter > > Cheers, > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
