[OpenLayers-Users] Historical photo web mapping app.

[Nicholas Efremov-Kendall]

The down and dirty way to do this would be to simply have links to the
photos attached to the features you're dropping into the map, with the links
in a popup or something like that...

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Robert Buckley <robertdbuckley at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have to think about the time series bit and see what´s out there already.
> I doesn´t have to be too complex though. And I suspect that most locations
> will only have 2 photos...one old, one new.
>
> thanks,
>
>
> Robert
>
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> *Von:* Nicholas Efremov-Kendall <n.e.kendall at gmail.com>
> *An:* Robert Buckley <robertdbuckley at yahoo.com>
> *CC:* users at openlayers.org
> *Gesendet:* Samstag, den 23. April 2011, 21:07:13 Uhr
> *Betreff:* Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Historical photo web mapping app.
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> I guess my main question would be how you intended to display the historic
> time-series, and handle the geographic metadata. Otherwise it sounds like
> you want a layer/feature layer of some kind that will connect to whatever
> application you have that will render the time-series photographs. It
> wouldn't be too hard to have a link to your application launcher in some
> geo-metadata...
> just some thoughts...
>
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Robert Buckley <robertdbuckley at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have had an enquiry about designing an opensource web mapping app which
>> shows historical photos of a particular city. The photos will show certain
>> location over time and maybe a bit of text about the location.
>>
>> I have Ubuntu, Openlayers, geoext, and Postgres/Postgis
>>
>> Has anyone done anything similar or knows of such a mapping app which I
>> could use as a case study?
>>
>> Anything would help, doesn´t matter how small or big,
>>
>> yours with thanks,
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
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