On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:52:16PM +0300, Ciprian Manea wrote: > Hi, > > @Calvin, OAM could use your dataset - TBs of (oblique) imagery, > currently stored as jpeg(?), but it's a bit unclear at the moment how > the imagery is (going to be) mapped to geo/coordinates.
Note that Oblique imagery is something that is interesting, but I'm not sure that I understand how it would be integrated with the main thrust of the OAM project, which is to present an archive of ortho imagery (at least as a first step); while I'm happy to have people discuss how they think OAM could do this on the mailing list, I think it's something that's unlikely to work trivially with the way that the OAM revamp is designed. If the source imagery is hosted at stable URLs, registering it as unprocessed OAM imagery would make it available for browsing in the catalog, without exposing it to tools which are expecting ortho imagery -- in general, we expect at least a bounding box for unprocessed imagery, to at least be able to place it on a map. If this meta-information is available about the images, and stable URLs for each file exist, I'd be happy to work with whoever to help register these in the OAM archive for interested parties to explore. > Assuming we're > going to solve this part, is there any chance to host the data > @massdot and feed it via http to a caching system at @OAM before it > gets delivered to the internets? OAM isn't going to have some magical 'caching system' that I'm aware of; the primary thing OAM offers is the catalog, so just having MassDOT host it at stable URLs is sufficient for OAM, if it's useful at all. > On the other hand, there's still no news regarding the OAM infra (I > don't think I've seen many past pointers on talk@ regarding its > existence; just double checking). Any takers/helpers? I'm not sure what you mean. http://oam.osgeo.org/ is up and running, and has been for more than 6 months; it has thousands of images in the catalog, and tools in https://github.com/oam/oam are written to run against it, producing output like: http://processedoam.s3.amazonaws.com/mit-knight-foundation-sm.jpg http://processedoam.s3.amazonaws.com/4000pxdemo.jpg Although there is no hosting being done 'at' OAM, part of the revamp and design is so that there doesn't need to be: other than the catalog, all the pieces can be trivially distributed, meaning there is no need for large scale centralized hosting. > btw: who takes care of the OAM wiki/www page? Can I have my own wiki > account please? :-) No clue -- definitely not me. -- Chris > > ping @schuyler, @chris > > > Thanks, > Ciprian > ---- A* > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) > <calvin.metc...@state.ma.us> wrote: > > Yeah if you change the extention to jpeg you can view it, other things came > > up before i was able to totally figure it out but i think there is a > > shapefile grid for it somewhere > > Sent with Verizon Mobile Email > > > > > > ---Original Message--- > > From: "Jim Klassen" <klassen...@gmail.com> > > Sent: 10/8/2011 7:07 pm > > To: calvin.metc...@dot.state.ma.us > > Cc: ciprian.manea+...@gmail.com, talk@openaerialmap.org > > Subject: Re: [OAM-talk] Hi > > > > > > At a previous job we ended up selecting vendors based on their willingness > > to provide us the data in an open format. (We already had a viewer that > > allowed users to access photos from many sources, from a selection of big > > collection contracts to ad-hoc shots, into the viewer. So a viewer was tied > > to one dataset or vendor wasn't appropiate.) > > > > If you have what I think you have, getting the imagery into an open format > > isn't too bad; getting the geo-referencing data to go with the images is > > quite the challenge. > > > > On Oct 8, 2011, at 15:17, "Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)" > > <calvin.metc...@state.ma.us> wrote: > > > >> Yeah and we at massdot still have a couple terrabytes of obliques (the > >> same ones used in bing) that we own and would love to liberate from their > >> wierd pictometry format > >> Sent with Verizon Mobile Email > >> > >> > >> ---Original Message--- > >> From: "Ciprian Manea" <ciprian.manea+...@gmail.com> > >> Sent: 10/8/2011 5:57 am > >> To: talk@openaerialmap.org > >> Subject: Re: [OAM-talk] Hi > >> > >> Hi there, > >> > >> The list is quite silent these day :-|, but I might have a few spare > >> "cycles" as sysadmin if needed. Btw: what's the latest status with > >> the current OAM architecture, deployments, active/available datasets? > >> > >> @Jim, how much data and what areas do you have in mind? (another topic > >> might be the licensing, is it PD/public already?) > >> > >> > >> Regards, > >> Ciprian > >> ---- A* > >> > >> > >> Hi. > >> > >> I have been talking to people at FOSS4G about Open Aerial Map and > >> would like to get involved in the project. I have a few ortho-photo > >> datasets that I need to publish and I figure I might as well do so in > >> a way that supports a broader goal. > >> > >> Jim Klassen > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> talk mailing list > >> t...@host134.hostmonster.com > >> http://host134.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org > >> _______________________________________________ > >> talk mailing list > >> t...@host134.hostmonster.com > >> http://host134.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org > > -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ talk mailing list t...@host134.hostmonster.com http://host134.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org
