torsdag den 1. oktober 2009

DIY Street-View Camera


Street View på din egen måde og til egne behov ...
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Street View your way ...
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Create Google Street View-like panoramas with cheap webcams and open-source software

If you use Google Maps, you're probably familiar with its Street View feature, which shows actual ground-level photos of many cities around the world. Google creates the images by mounting special cameras on vehicles and driving them around.

Now wouldn't it be great if you could have your own Street View–like camera? You could hike a trail and later share the photos with friends. The photos would carry GPS tags, so you could display them on Google Earth and include annotations—good water here, poison ivy there. Realtors could display whole neighborhoods to potential clients. A country club could offer a virtual tour of its golf course. Architects could monitor progress at a construction site. [...]



JEEP CAM


SOFTWARE
UVC driver: http://linux-uvc.berlios.de
Webcam device driver: http://linuxtv.org
luvcview: http://www.quickcamteam.net
Exiftool: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool
gpicsync: http://code.google.com/p/gpicsync
autopano-sift: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~nowozin/autopano-sift
hugin: http://hugin.sourceforge.net
PTViewer: http://www.fsoft.it/panorama/ptviewer.htm


Read more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/diy-streetview-camera/0

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