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Something I'm kinda interested in is how one might make a semi-complete, even locally, alternative to street view. It seems like something that could potential
by ashineo 4y ago
Something I'm kinda interested in is how one might make a semi-complete, even locally, alternative to street view.
It seems like something that could potentially be made much cheaper with a collection of drones with 360 cameras. they could all be programmed to fill out areas relatively quickly I think. It might not be street height which would be a bit of a loss, but an open dataset (with appropriate face/license plate/etc filtering) would be worth that I think.
- Larrikin 4y agoIf the height is not street level, what's the niche that's being filled by that when we already have tons of satellite data.
- ashineo 4y agoI dont mean that its above the buildings on streets just that it would probably need to be above car/van/lorry height to not get smashed
- Pakdef 4y agoProbably could use the data from self driving cars, including lidar, to make something interesting.
- Ajedi32 4y agoKartaView and Mapillary are open data Street View alternatives, though they mostly rely on dash cam footage, and thus often don't have fully panoramic views. There's also OpenDroneMap, which is more drone-focused and captures full 3d point clouds, but that still isn't quite the same as what you're proposing.
- upbeat_general 4y agoI’m not sure that drones are any better than cars in terms of recharging, not to mention local regulations. The 360 cameras are cheap but getting things accurately localized (if you care about that) and having LiDAR like google has (also if you care about this) is a bit more expensive. I think one promising route might be to stick a 360 camera on some random cars in exchange for a fee (similar to how ads are put on top of Ubers/Taxis). I bet you could cover a city pretty quick that way, as long as you figure out how to offload the data. Maybe an agreement with a taxi company to plug into the top of the cars a couple times a week.