Would it make sense for the OSV and OTV projects to be combined so that you have one place for images?
John On 7/30/10, Toby Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > I would at least talk to John (the openstreetview admin). OSV seems to > have active users (I just moderated over 100 images) but there has > been no development work in over 6 months and to be honest it could > use some. The interface is still pretty basic and pictures can not be > tagged or have any metadata added except what is already in the EXIF > data. So you can't indicate which direction the camera was pointing > like it seems OTV allows you to do which is kind of important for > street level imagery. Also, there ARE a lot of trail pictures being > uploaded to OSV. So ideally I would love to see OSV and OTV work > together if possible. > > I will try to ride a trail or two here in town this weekend and get > some pictures so I can try OTV for myself. > > Toby > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Nick Whitelegg > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Thanks for the ideas - the point below was raised by at least a couple of >> people. >> >>>*Bulk upload* >> >>>That last one is the key to a successful project, in my opinion. It would >>> be >>>very nice if support for this "contributor-process" would be supported. >> >> I've found a JavaScript library to do this - see the blog >> http://www.free-map.org.uk/wordpress. >> >>>I didn't visit SOTM, so this might be answered already, but how does this >>>project differ from other openstreetmap based projects that also aims to >>>collect a database of georeferenced photos? Is there a need for several >>>similiar projects? (i haven't really looked at the other projects) >> >> The main one I'm also aware of is OpenStreetView - however, this isn't so >> much focused on off-road photos and has more of an emphasis on tagged >> photos. >> >> OpenStreetView and OpenTrailView are working on different aspects of the >> same sort of thing, so there's no reason they can't come together in the >> future. >> >> Nick >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- John J. Mitchell _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
