by nickreese on 12/20/22, 9:39 AM with 10 comments
Question: With a small budget but ample manpower how would you build a small scale Google Street View to take a snapshot of the road system and infrastructure in an area?
It seems that quotes we're receiving for GPS tagged location data (500k+) are outrageous compared to the cost of buying a camera (~20-30k) and mounting it on a truck to survey the area... then building a small dashboard to have locals tag the data.
In total there are ~300km of roads to survey.
Anyone familiar with this?
Any open source tools for managing this sort of data?
Is it crazy to think we could pull this off for a fraction of the cost?
by phillipseamore on 12/20/22, 10:41 AM
Also https://www.mapillary.com/
This was also posted on HN recently: https://jakecoppinger.com/2022/12/creating-aerial-imagery-wi...
by Jakob on 12/20/22, 1:06 PM
Operated now by Grab: https://engineering.grab.com/kartacam-powers-grabmaps
Disclaimer: I work for Grab (but not in the mapping team)
by piceas on 12/20/22, 3:03 PM
If I would do it again I would dump the images into Photo Sphere Viewer and make a mini-map.
It depend what is needed, but it is conceivable to use a cheap 360 camera on a stick and log the journey with OsmAnd/whatever. If only some images/locations need to be high detail, use a normal camera for those locations. With care the images could be merged, but it's probably not worth it. Just link to it from the photo sphere.
by martythemaniak on 12/20/22, 3:21 PM
Buy an Insta 360, mount it to a car with a selfie stick. Drive around, set the camera to take a snapshot once a second. Dump images to S3, extract exif to DB, display on top of an open streets map.
You'll have to navigate using clicking on a map. With a bit of extra work, create a linked list of the images, then display buttons on each image for prev/next.
by ale42 on 12/20/22, 1:38 PM
by JeffreyMartin on 12/21/22, 1:53 PM
Get in touch, let's talk.
Stay away from the home grown solutions, they are not robust, reliable, or scalable. You'll waste a ton of time and money on them with bad results.
Our systems have been used all over the world to map entire countries with no hardware failures.
Happy to talk!
by tnelsond3 on 12/20/22, 2:49 PM
by funshed on 12/20/22, 11:17 AM
by nakedrobot2 on 12/21/22, 1:49 PM