Hello everyone, Google Street View got me thinking that it might be a good idea to explore the possibility of an open source street view database, which could be linked in with OSM. The idea would be that people could take panorama photos of streets in their area and upload them, and so potentially produce an open equivalent to Street View, which could perhaps be called "OpenStreetView". Another area which Google don't seem to be covering is the possibility of countryside panoramas which could allow people to preview a walk before they set out or potentially be used as a navigation tool in a mobile application.
I have put together an extremely simple facility to allow users to upload panoramas and view their location on a slippy map at http://www.openstreetview.org.uk/. (Sorry about .uk but .org, .com, .net appear to be already taken). There's also a blog there. It's not so much a working application as yet, but I thought I'd let people know so that they can make comments. Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
