3. OpenStreetView?
• Photos on a map
• Register your twitter account
• No photos in an area? Request some
• Twitter message sent to nearest
person to collect photos
14. What is (Open)
Street View?
• Capturing photos
• Storing and maintaining database
15. What is (Open)
Street View?
• Capturing photos
• Storing and maintaining database
• Extracting data and metadata
16. What is (Open)
Street View?
• Capturing photos
• Storing and maintaining database
• Extracting data and metadata
• Presenting imagery to users
17. What is (Open)
Street View?
• Capturing photos
•Storing and maintaining database
•Extracting data
• Presenting imagery to users
18. Capturing Photos
• Normal Camera + Separate GPS
• Mobile device with combined GPS +
Camera, and bespoke software
• Higher-grade cameras and other
equipment
19. Upload
• Web upload, multiple files via flash
• FTP - username/password given
from the site
• Flickr/Panoramio import
• API, native clients
20. Import
• EXIF tags are parsed for location,
direction and tilt information
• Entry is created in OSV database
• Multiple sizes are created
21. Moderation
• Photo cannot be viewed until it has
been moderated by N people
• Moderators chosen by the system,
can’t ask your friends
• Moderators verify that image is valid
and blur out sensitive parts
22.
23.
24. After Moderation
• Photo becomes part of the main
database
• Anyone can view it whether a
member of OpenStreetView or not
25. Extracting Data
• Images can be tagged with
key=value pairs
• Tags can apply to an area of the
image or the whole image
• Can also mark an image as “unsafe”
to be moderated again
26.
27.
28. Extracting Data
• Moderated images would be
available for people to download
• Teams working on computer vision
projects could use OpenStreetView
as a source dataset
29. API
• Upload images for processing
• Tagging images that have been
moderated
• Marking images as unsafe
• Cannot moderate images through
third party sites
30. API
• Search for images by bounding box
and tags
• Download information and
metadata for images
• Download resized and original sized
images
31. License
• User can specify license that covers
individual images
• Could also opt for
“OpenStreetView Choice” License
• Metadata covered by perpetual CC0
(Public Domain) license
35. Presenting Imagery
• In the future, who knows?
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=ccc&sll=52.357702,4.910588&sspn=0.011192,0.033002&ie=UTF8&ll=52.362544,4.907101&spn=0,359.983499&z=17&layer=c&cbll=52.362449,4.907158&panoid=tboWgnlQU0utvg60YAMUTA&cbp=12,24.65,,0,-17.76
+ OSM map
36. Current Status
• Can upload already georeferenced
photos and have them moderated
• Photos show up on the homepage
as thumbnails on a map
• Can download information on all
images in bounding box as KML