[Geowanking] Open Street View

[stephen white]

On 13/06/2007, at 10:54 PM, brian grant wrote:
> the street view focus on the visual seems to be an effort to  
> capture the
> transient but my needs are to capture repeatedly over time and not  
> just the
> visual - I need temperature, humidity, particulate and other  
> atmospheric

When you have your measurements, where do you put them? Both groups  
of data are transient, and you may as well put your temperature and  
humidity and particulate data in the same place as something that  
lets you look around to see what's there.

If you have a high particulate reading, wouldn't it be useful to pop  
into that point and look to see that there's a factory just up the  
road that is impacting on the sensor? If something's more humid than  
it should be, you can see there's a fire hydrant spraying water on  
your node!

Why separate the two? Photos are sensor captures of light, right  
alongside sensor captures of any other type. Throw in radiation,  
throw in cosmic rays, throw in anything you like, and all of that  
information is forever changing and transient in nature.

I want to capture EVERYTHING, and make it just as accessible as being  
there. If there was a tricorder that captured all the other data that  
you want, then all that data could be represented in Open Street  
View's databases, with an overlay saying "34 degrees" while you view!

There is no conflict. It is the same problem.

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   steve at adam.com.au