On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Nick Whitelegg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > (*posted to talk in case of interest, but all follow ups will be on the > Photos list*) > cool I uploaded a picture of Bogota, Colombia and wait for the confirmation. greetings Humano
> 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 > -- http://GaleNUx.com es el sistema de información para la salud --------------------------------------///-------------------------------------- Teléfono USA: (347) 688-4473 (Google voice) skype: llamarafredyrivera _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
