2009/12/18 David Earl <[email protected]>: > Of course, all photos should be geolocated in four dimensions of the > space-time continuum not just lat,lon but lat,lon,altitude and timestamp. > > Silly? Perhaps a bit OTT at present, but...
Silly until altitude sensors/chips get a lot better... > As maps extend into three dimensions (e.g. cityscape modelling and > perspective terrain views) people will want their photos located not The Japanese already want 3D stuff just for road navigation since there is a lot of multideck road ways, having routing software know what deck you are on is very useful > Actually if photos are geolocated like that, they also need a reference > datum stored too - how else will the space tourists of the future locate > their photos on the moon and on Mars? So we should be using star trek co-ords and star dates? > OK, back to the real world... Or is it the twilight zone? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
