<div dir="ltr">Eli --<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I've added one comment and link to Pat's excellent response.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Except I forgot to include any of the HOT links (sorry, could not resist).<br><br></div><div>Here's the HOT mailing list:<br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot</a><br>
</div><div>Here's a "why" doc for OpenAerialMap (and a cautionary tale -- always spell-check your URLs):<br><a href="http://www.humanitarianinnovation.org/blog/HOT/why-Open-Ariel-Map">http://www.humanitarianinnovation.org/blog/HOT/why-Open-Ariel-Map</a><br>
</div><div>Here's a log of the revival meeting on <a href="http://irc.oftc.net">irc.oftc.net</a> #hot. (There was at least one follow up meeting in a later log.)<br><a href="http://logs.sahanafoundation.org/hotosm/2014-07-09.txt" target="_blank">http://logs.sahanafoundation.org/hotosm/2014-07-09.txt</a><br>
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> <a href="http://opendronemap.github.io/odm/" target="_blank">http://opendronemap.github.io/odm/</a><br>
> <a href="http://dronemapper.com/" target="_blank">http://dronemapper.com/</a> (commercial image processing service)<br>
> <a href="http://flightriot.com/" target="_blank">http://flightriot.com/</a><br>
> <a href="http://ccwu.me/vsfm/" target="_blank">http://ccwu.me/vsfm/</a><br>
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</div></div>Some of the Structure From Motion stuff might play a role in some of<br>
this. Here is a link on for one such project,<br>
<a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~snavely/bundler/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~snavely/bundler/</a><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right! -- that link <a href="http://ccwu.me/vsfm/" target="_blank">http://ccwu.me/vsfm/</a> was to VisualSFM -- work by Changchang Wu et al. Video is a huge advantage over isolated images. (I just came across a paper that compared Bundler and other SFM work, but it's behind a journal paywall, and I haven't read it yet.)<br>
<br></div><div>-- Pat<br></div></div></div></div></div>