Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread John McKerrell
Ok, turns out it's not so hard to upload ~20GB of data. The files are now available on the following web address. I'm not really sure how well my server's going to handle this so please, don't go too crazy, please don't download the tar files if you don't really need them or aren't likely

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread Frankie Roberto
2009/9/18 John McKerrell j...@mckerrell.net URL for the files is: http://78.46.66.234/ Nice. What are the latest thoughts on how best to use these for tracing / mapping? It'd be great to be able to use some of them in Potlatch - even if it's just one or two of the more top-down ones to start

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread Peter Miller
On 18 Sep 2009, at 12:43, Frankie Roberto wrote: 2009/9/18 John McKerrell j...@mckerrell.net URL for the files is: http://78.46.66.234/ Nice. What are the latest thoughts on how best to use these for tracing / mapping? It'd be great to be able to use some of them in Potlatch - even if

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread Frankie Roberto
2009/9/18 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com Here is what I have managed to do so far with Warper. The rectification algorithm is a little flakey and sometimes it goes banannas when one adds another control point. http://warper.geothings.net/layers/21 Nice I believe it should be

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread Peter Miller
On 18 Sep 2009, at 14:53, Andy Allan wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Frankie Roberto fran...@frankieroberto.com wrote: I believe it should be possible to use this in Potlatch somehow but haven't figured it out. Some of the link from Warper result in errors. I tried using some

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread Andy Allan
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Frankie Roberto fran...@frankieroberto.com wrote: I believe it should be possible to use this in Potlatch somehow but haven't figured it out. Some of the link from Warper result in errors. I tried using some of these links:

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread Andy Allan
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Frankie Roberto wrote: Have copied chippy and RichardF in, in the hope that they can help us connect things up. Potlatch doesn't do WMS, it only does 900913 tiles (like OSM itself). You specify them in this

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frankie Roberto wrote: Have copied chippy and RichardF in, in the hope that they can help us connect things up. Potlatch doesn't do WMS, it only does 900913 tiles (like OSM itself). You specify them in this format: http://tiles.mytileserver.org/directory/!/!/!.png where !, !, ! are

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread Matt Williams
2009/9/18 Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Frankie Roberto wrote: Have copied chippy and RichardF in, in the hope that they can help us connect things up. Potlatch doesn't do WMS, it only does 900913 tiles

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread John McKerrell
On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:27, Matt Williams wrote: A random selection of vertical(ish) photos: 113-124 (all of one single area) 127 149 628,632,633,636,637,638 (all of the centre near the bridges) I agree a systematic approach to tagging all the photos would be better (anyone want to code up

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread John McKerrell
On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:44, John McKerrell wrote: On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:27, Matt Williams wrote: A random selection of vertical(ish) photos: 113-124 (all of one single area) 127 149 628,632,633,636,637,638 (all of the centre near the bridges) I agree a systematic approach to tagging all

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-18 Thread Matt Williams
2009/9/18 John McKerrell j...@mckerrell.net: On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:44, John McKerrell wrote: On 18 Sep 2009, at 19:27, Matt Williams wrote: A random selection of vertical(ish) photos: 113-124 (all of one single area) 127 149 628,632,633,636,637,638 (all of the centre near the bridges)

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-17 Thread John McKerrell
Ok, just to let you all know, I have the images on my laptop so should be fine for taking them down to the AGI next week. It's showing as just over 20GB on my snow leopard base 10 laptop ;-) I'm tempted to try uploading them to my server but I imagine it'll take too long so basically I'll

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-14 Thread John McKerrell
JR lives just around the corner from me so I should be able to get a copy of the photos onto my laptop. I'm going to the AGI conference next week so if anyone wanted they could then take a copy from me. I might even be able to host them though as he says, it's liable to be just a difficult

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread Dan Karran
2009/9/11 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: JR is preparing the images at the moment and will start loading them up onto Flickr soon and we can then figure out what we can do with them. For anyone interested in the photos, it looks like they're going up at

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread John Robert Peterson
As for plans for how -- I sent an email to the OAM list for advice, and haven't gotten a reply. As for hosting, that's even more of a mystery. I'm not planning to put them all online in the short term -- while flickr would be able ot hold all 10GB of data, it would be an almost imposable ot

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread Peter Miller
On 13 Sep 2009, at 16:03, John Robert Peterson wrote: As for plans for how -- I sent an email to the OAM list for advice, and haven't gotten a reply. As for hosting, that's even more of a mystery. I'm not planning to put them all online in the short term -- while flickr would be able ot

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread Tim Waters (chippy)
Hi, yes was about to suggest map warper (warper.geothings.net) it can handle oblique photos, given enough control points (which you'd need for a desktop equivalent) However, the server it's running on is crappy and shared and stingy on processes that need some power, so I've had to restrict it so

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread John Robert Peterson
@tim waters -- can I assume from the content of you email that you either wrote, or at least understand the code and maths running on warper? If so, if you have time, could you please take a look at the technology implemented in Panorama Tools / Hugin (I'd be happy to help you with it as a user

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-13 Thread Peter Miller
On 13 Sep 2009, at 22:05, Frankie Roberto wrote: 2009/9/13 John Robert Peterson jrp@gmail.com I'm not planning to put them all online in the short term -- while flickr would be able ot hold all 10GB of data, it would be an almost imposable ot access format. The photos look great

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-11 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Peter Could the flight try to cover the Long Marston rail depot about 3 miles south of Stratford? I mapped as much as could on a cycle ride that passed by the perimeter, and would like to complete it. Regards Brian 2009/9/8 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com Just to let you know

[Talk-GB] OpenStreetMap's first flight!

2009-09-08 Thread Peter Miller
Just to let you know that OpenStreetMap is hiring a plane and will be taking aerial photography of Stratford-upon-Avon on this Thursday 10th September at 3pm as long as the weather holds good. Is this a first for the project?? It is of course a bit of an experiment as none of us are