Awesome stuff, Reminds me of one of the first images on the old map warper :)
http://warper.geothings.net/maps/68 And http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon/Imagery where during a GIS conference in 2009, someone was allowed to poke their camera out the window of a light aircraft. Obliqueness was the main thing both old school gdalwarp projects encountered. Which mapknitter gets around very very nicely! Cheers, Tim On 5 April 2012 21:28, Jeffrey Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > Just wanted OAM folks to know there are larger areas being mapped now, see > below :-) > > really -- with 2-3 more of Doc's images, i can get a 3m/px map of the 5 > boroughs. It seems like OAM hasn't been pulling in new data as much but if > there's anything I can do to make MapKnitter maps more auto-pullable, say > the word. > > We also recently added different (open) default base layers to rectify > against, as well as explicit licensing of the outputs: > > http://mapknitter.org/map/license/publicdomain > http://mapknitter.org/map/license/cc-by > > It seems like a dedicated group of air travelers could map most cities > around the world at ~1 m/px in a reasonable amount of time, say, months. > > jeff > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jeffrey Warren <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:04 AM > Subject: rectifying Doc Searls' window-seat photos of NYC > To: [email protected], [email protected] > > > Doc Searls takes LOTS of photos from the windows of commercial airliners: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/ > > Most are Creative Commons Attribution! I gave a couple a try over Brooklyn: > > http://mapknitter.org/map/view/newtown-creek-docsearls > > You have to zoom out a bit, or just try this full-screen version > (embeddable if you want to put it on a blog post): > > > http://archive.publiclaboratory.org/leaflet/?tms=http://mapknitter.org/tms/newtown-creek-docsearls/&lat=40.7239029817&lon=-73.9606764107&zoom=12 > > We've talked about this before -- the idea of just getting lots of people > to photograph key areas from their plane > windows<http://publiclaboratory.org/passenger-pigeon>. > Using Doc Searls' photostream, we can try this out. His were from quite > high up -- 2-3 meter resolution -- i wonder if some on approach to > LaGuardia could get intermediate resolutions like ~ 30-40cm/px. It'd be a > great counterpart to the high-res balloon mapping, especially for places > like the Gowanus Canal and New Town Creek, where periodic monitoring is the > goal. > > Jeff > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://host134.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org > >
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