[Geowanking] Open Street View

[Derrick J Brashear]

Hm. Allegheny County (PAu has pictures of every structure online for tax 
purposes. I guess I should look into license info and see if anything can 
be made programmatically from their imagery if it's legally usable and 
useful.


  On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Tom Longson (nym) wrote:

> Wankers, etc,
>
> Rich Gibson and I have been talking about doing a 
> map of panoramas, and he
> registered the domain OpenStreetView.com. I 
> personally am interested in
> views other than the street, creating a database 
> of panoramas in places
> where the GoogleVan could never penetrate. I am 
> able to do panoramas using
> traditional methods, including tripods, the 
> Panosaurus (a panoramic tripod
> head), and a traditional camera, but there are 
> some hanging bits in my mind
> in this scenario.
>
> For starters, I would like to have an open source 
> viewer. Does anyone have a
> flash viewer that is OSS, or has the expertise to 
> make one? Obviously QTVR
> is an option, but any controls for movement have 
> to be outside of the viewer
> then, and it limits the ability to add dynamic 
> links in the UI ala Google
> Street View's viewer.
>
> Secondly, I see a need to be able to create a 
> panoramic camera that can
> either be mounted on a backpack or on a small 
> wagon. This would allow us to
> capture data in some great areas, and provide that 
> wealth of data instead of
> just a few places. This would also be great for 
> Open Street Maps, because it
> would give the mapmakers additional metadata from 
> the ground to identify
> features.
>
> Anyone interested in taking on this challenge with 
> us?
>
> nym / Tom Longson
> http://igargoyle.com/streetview/
>