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    Simple (?!), but amazing.<br>
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    &nbsp; After some Googling, I catagorized the various methods of
    integrating photos with spatial data into:<br>
    <br>
    System 1: Photos linked to points on map<br>
    System 2: Streetview-style navigation and display (Google "diy
    streetview" for examples)<br>
    System 3: 3D environment with DEM, building shells and textures
    (like VTP, OssimPlanet, etc)<br>
    System 4: System 3 with more objects, real-time data feeds,etc <br>
    <br>
    As you move to the next system, I expect it would take an order of
    magnitude more work than the previous one (so for now I'll just do
    an example of the display portion of System 1).<br>
    <br>
    Interesting stuff; thanks to all for the information!<br>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Best Regards,
Brent Fraser</pre>
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    On 12/16/2011 8:56 AM, Dan Little wrote:
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        <div><span>The application Bob's talking about is *ridiculously*
            popular with City staff. &nbsp;When it broke we got calls from
            all corners of staff, some we didn't even know used the
            application until that point.</span></div>
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        <div><span>The feature-editor (cough, 2.6, cough, WFS-T) would
            make this super-easy and integrate with all sorts of apps
            (or at least, uDig and QGIS).</span></div>
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                  <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b>
                  Brent Fraser <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bfraser@geoanalytic.com">&lt;bfraser@geoanalytic.com&gt;</a><br>
                  <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Bob
                  Basques <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us">&lt;Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us&gt;</a> <br>
                  <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b>
                  GeoMOOSE Users List
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                  <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
                  Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:33 PM<br>
                  <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
                  Re: [Geomoose-users] Something like Google Earth's
                  Photo layer?<br>
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                  <div> &nbsp; Sounds very cool!&nbsp; I take it the project was
                    successful wrt user-interaction/GUI ?<br>
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                    &nbsp; I was also thinking of a UI like StreetView (move
                    forward/back, zoom etc), but that would require the
                    imagery to be highly geo-coded, and a ton of
                    software...<br>
                    <pre class="yiv717936588moz-signature">Best Regards,
Brent Fraser</pre>
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                    On 12/15/2011 12:54 PM, Bob Basques wrote:
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                      <div style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;"> <font
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                      <div style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;"> <font
                          face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Already have
                          that sort of thing developed here at the City
                          internally. We even have a thumbnail in a
                          popup on mouseover function. &nbsp;Additionally we
                          also put into place a GeoSpatial identifier
                          that shows all photo's that look at a
                          particular spot on the ground. &nbsp;We acquired
                          all the corresponding camera data with the
                          photo acquisition that show which direction
                          the camera was facing. &nbsp;Jim K. did much of the
                          work for this. &nbsp;But the availability of the
                          camera data helped as well. &nbsp;Our catlog
                          includes two different collections of street
                          level photos, each covering the entire city
                          right of way. &nbsp;The last collection included
                          2million+ photos @ 7megapixel (I think) with a
                          camera array for 360 deg views of each
                          location spaced every 15 ft down every road.
                          &nbsp;We're talking about running another
                          collection as a matter of fact.</font> </div>
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                      <div style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;"> <font
                          face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">We've similarly
                          set up some aerial oblique photos in the same
                          system that are retrieved using the same
                          lookup service.</font> </div>
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                      <div style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;"> <font
                          face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">The hard part
                          with fielding a demo of it, is having a place
                          to upload, and also a cleaning mechanism on a
                          periodic timeline. &nbsp;</font> </div>
                      <div style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;"> <font
                          face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">There is also
                          the need to have some sort of authentication
                          in place for uploading in a general sense.</font>
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                        &gt;&gt;&gt; Brent Fraser <a
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                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I had a question the other day
                                  from a person in the Emergency<br>
                                  Response Planning business.&nbsp; He has a
                                  client (with little or no money to<br>
                                  spend) interested in looking at a
                                  aerial scenes of their five facilities<br>
                                  from their head office to aid in any
                                  decisions.&nbsp; I let them know the<br>
                                  difference between aerial "snapshots"
                                  and photogrammetry, etc.&nbsp; But I<br>
                                  can't really help them; it's mainly a
                                  data acquisition task and a photo<br>
                                  album.<br>
                                  <br>
                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; However while we were talking, it
                                  occurred to me that a simple<br>
                                  web-based mapping system with the
                                  ability to upload geo-tagged photos<br>
                                  from the field, display icons on map
                                  and show the photo when clicked<br>
                                  (like Google Earth's Photo layer)
                                  could be a nice GeoMoose extension,<br>
                                  useful for various things.&nbsp; I think
                                  most of the parts are in GeoMoose:<br>
                                  Identify, Popups (although I may want
                                  the Identify info sent to a<br>
                                  different browser window)...<br>
                                  <br>
                                  Thoughts?<br>
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                                  --<br>
                                  Best Regards,<br>
                                  Brent Fraser<br>
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