KML is just a visualization representation for certain renderers.
Underlying it is a storage of photos and their associated metadata
describing the point and view vector of the image. This can then be
syndicated out in a number of ways, KML just being one of them.
I think the project, like OSM and other similar ones, has broad range
of potential uses.
- Virtual Tours
- Disaster response (remote experts can get "in the field" view of a
situation if the whole thing could be done semi-realtime)
- Community evaluation
- Augment the view (reality) to do suppose alternative scenarios (what
if this building weren't here? what if this wall had a mural?)
All the ideas here are great (I haven't read them all, but the ones I
did were good ;)) To make it work, would just need to work out a data
model (nominally {image, position, view vector, timestamp}, and then
let people go out and figure out how to generate this data with a
myriad of techniques, devices, etc.
This seems like the OSM model again - it is agnostic to 'how' you get
the position data (use whichever GPS receiver floats your boat and has
minimal data requirements) and just gives you a large infrastructure
to upload, organize, and view this information.
Andrew
On 6/12/07, Mike Liebhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rich Gibson wrote:
I'm going out on a limb here to say that I think doing open street
views is (primarily) a project in hacking community rather than code.
Actually there -is- an important question of code. Does creating an "open"
streetview imply creating new notation or markup? Or simply applying the new
features in KML2.2?
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