I would at least talk to John (the openstreetview admin). OSV seems to have active users (I just moderated over 100 images) but there has been no development work in over 6 months and to be honest it could use some. The interface is still pretty basic and pictures can not be tagged or have any metadata added except what is already in the EXIF data. So you can't indicate which direction the camera was pointing like it seems OTV allows you to do which is kind of important for street level imagery. Also, there ARE a lot of trail pictures being uploaded to OSV. So ideally I would love to see OSV and OTV work together if possible.
I will try to ride a trail or two here in town this weekend and get some pictures so I can try OTV for myself. Toby On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Nick Whitelegg <nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Thanks for the ideas - the point below was raised by at least a couple of > people. > >>*Bulk upload* > >>That last one is the key to a successful project, in my opinion. It would be >>very nice if support for this "contributor-process" would be supported. > > I've found a JavaScript library to do this - see the blog > http://www.free-map.org.uk/wordpress. > >>I didn't visit SOTM, so this might be answered already, but how does this >>project differ from other openstreetmap based projects that also aims to >>collect a database of georeferenced photos? Is there a need for several >>similiar projects? (i haven't really looked at the other projects) > > The main one I'm also aware of is OpenStreetView - however, this isn't so > much focused on off-road photos and has more of an emphasis on tagged photos. > > OpenStreetView and OpenTrailView are working on different aspects of the same > sort of thing, so there's no reason they can't come together in the future. > > Nick > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
