[Geomoose-users] Something like Google Earth's Photo layer?

[Brent Fraser]

Simple (?!), but amazing.

   After some Googling, I catagorized the various methods of integrating 
photos with spatial data into:

System 1: Photos linked to points on map
System 2: Streetview-style navigation and display (Google "diy 
streetview" for examples)
System 3: 3D environment with DEM, building shells and textures (like 
VTP, OssimPlanet, etc)
System 4: System 3 with more objects, real-time data feeds,etc

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).

Interesting stuff; thanks to all for the information!

Best Regards,
Brent Fraser


On 12/16/2011 8:56 AM, Dan Little wrote:
> The application Bob's talking about is *ridiculously* popular with 
> City staff.  When it broke we got calls from all corners of staff, 
> some we didn't even know used the application until that point.
>
> 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).
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
>     *To:* Bob Basques <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>
>     *Cc:* GeoMOOSE Users List <geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>     *Sent:* Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:33 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Geomoose-users] Something like Google Earth's
>     Photo layer?
>
>       Sounds very cool!  I take it the project was successful wrt
>     user-interaction/GUI ?
>
>       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...
>
>     Best Regards,
>     Brent Fraser
>
>
>     On 12/15/2011 12:54 PM, Bob Basques wrote:
>>     Brent,
>>
>>     Already have that sort of thing developed here at the City
>>     internally. We even have a thumbnail in a popup on mouseover
>>     function.  Additionally we also put into place a GeoSpatial
>>     identifier that shows all photo's that look at a particular spot
>>     on the ground.  We acquired all the corresponding camera data
>>     with the photo acquisition that show which direction the camera
>>     was facing.  Jim K. did much of the work for this.  But the
>>     availability of the camera data helped as well.  Our catlog
>>     includes two different collections of street level photos, each
>>     covering the entire city right of way.  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.  We're talking about running another collection as a
>>     matter of fact.
>>
>>     We've similarly set up some aerial oblique photos in the same
>>     system that are retrieved using the same lookup service.
>>
>>     The hard part with fielding a demo of it, is having a place to
>>     upload, and also a cleaning mechanism on a periodic timeline.
>>     There is also the need to have some sort of authentication in
>>     place for uploading in a general sense.
>>
>>     bobb
>>
>>
>>
>>     >>> Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
>>     <mailto:bfraser at geoanalytic.com> wrote:
>>          I had a question the other day from a person in the Emergency
>>     Response Planning business.  He has a client (with little or no
>>     money to
>>     spend) interested in looking at a aerial scenes of their five
>>     facilities
>>     from their head office to aid in any decisions.  I let them know the
>>     difference between aerial "snapshots" and photogrammetry, etc.  But I
>>     can't really help them; it's mainly a data acquisition task and a
>>     photo
>>     album.
>>
>>          However while we were talking, it occurred to me that a simple
>>     web-based mapping system with the ability to upload geo-tagged photos
>>     from the field, display icons on map and show the photo when clicked
>>     (like Google Earth's Photo layer) could be a nice GeoMoose extension,
>>     useful for various things.  I think most of the parts are in
>>     GeoMoose:
>>     Identify, Popups (although I may want the Identify info sent to a
>>     different browser window)...
>>
>>     Thoughts?
>>
>>     --
>>     Best Regards,
>>     Brent Fraser
>>
>>
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