Hi, (*posted to talk in case of interest, but all follow ups will be on the Photos list*)
Having been, I have to admit, just a little impressed with the current state of Google Street View in the UK (i.e. it's now complete), my interest in developing "StreetView for footpaths" has been resurrected. So I'd like to announce the initial version of OpenTrailView at : http://www.free-map.org.uk/otv/ OpenTrailView (OTV) is a little different to OpenStreetView, but there are significant overlaps. OTV focuses on panoramas, i.e. 360 degree photographic views from a particular point, and is solely concerned with off-road views, not street views. The eventual aim is to build something like StreetView for the world's footpaths, trails and publicly-accessible wild places. At the moment it's pretty basic. Nonetheless you can: * Submit a panorama. * Align a panorama with a footpath. There are two sample panoramas in the system already, one is just north of the default view, one is a few miles southeast. You can rotate the camera icon by dragging it, to align the panorama with the footpath it's on. One of the two samples is a street view BTW, but that's just for testing purposes. * View a panorama by moving the mouse over the camera icon. Current immediate future plans are: * Try and standardise on the dimensions of the panorama in pixels. This is more a photography than a software issue - so any ideas here would be most welcome! * More in the way of instructions * Take a good sample of panoramas in a countryside area near me (New Forest) and actually start developing a StreetView-like app. I realise this is somewhat re-writing what's already been done in the main OpenStreetView site, but TBH Rails and me don't mix that well and I figured it would be easier for me to start from scratch using PHP :-) Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
