Great, I love this idea. I'm working on mapping the trails of my community, and have wanted to create panoramas as I go. I'm in the USA, so I can't use OTV as is, but maybe in the future as it matures it will expand to the globe or I could setup OTV just for my area. Keep up the good work! -Josh
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Nick Whitelegg <nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > Would like to announce an update to OpenTrailView (OTV; now at > http://www.opentrailview.org/), which I introduced at Girona last year and > which aims to collect linked 360 degree panoramas of walking / hiking routes > a la Google StreetView. > > A longer post will appear in due course on the blog at > http://www.free-map.org.uk/wordpress, but for the moment here is a summary > of the changes made. > * You can now "walk through" a series of panoramas in a simple, > proto-Google-StreetView interface. If you select a panorama and there is an > adjacent one nearby, a yellow arrow will appear at the base of the panorama > showing you the direction of the next one. Pressing the forward arrow key > will move you forward to the next panorama. > * OTV now focuses solely on panoramas, it is no longer collecting regular > photos of trails. However Freemap (will post an update on talk-gb soon) now > allows you to upload regular photos and associate them with a walking route. > > One key thing about the latest OTV is that *underlying OpenStreetMap data* > is used to link together panoramas. When you select a panorama, nearby OSM > ways will be located by querying a standard OSM PostGIS database. Each > nearby way will then be searched for adjacent panoramas. If there is an > adjacent panorama along a given OSM way, its bearing relative to the current > panorama will be calculated and shown on the current panorama. For this > reason, the "panorama linking" feature of OTV is only as good as the > underlying OSM data, and due to server constraints, *will only work with UK > rights of way and permissive paths*. So while you can upload and view > panoramas in other parts of the world, they will not be linked together as > there is no OSM data. > > I did this because: > * I figured it would ease maintenance and coding effort, not to mention > contributor effort, if underlying OSM data was used to link panoramas; > * the OTV code is open-source (LGPL; see > svn.openstreetmap.org/sites/free-map.org.uk) so is readily installable on > any server with an OSM PostGIS database, PHP and the relevant PHP modules; > * it's something fun to do with OSM data :-) > > But, if you disagree with this approach and would prefer to see a separate > OTV-specific linking mechanism, please let me know. > > Due to reliance on the <canvas> tag it will not work in IE BTW. There are a > few glitches with the interface but it largely works. Some of the panoramas > are a bit iffy but they were my first efforts :-) > > Nick > > > _______________________________________________ > Photos mailing list > pho...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/photos > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
