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If the optics and resolution is right, might this be Good Enough for crowdsourced StreetView?

• makmanalp 12y ago
  The tricky part of streetview is that it also has accurate localization (damn good GPSes, probably with realtime kinematics) and also accelerometers / compasses and stuff to make sure that when, say, you hit a bump in the road or your camera is angled somehow, the image is fixed to account for that. Maybe you could fix that with enough images and some intelligent matching based on overlaps, but I can forsee it being quite tricky.
• Tepix 12y ago
  The Ricoh Theta is nice for streetview. It uses the GPS built into the smartphone controlling it. Since the last update, it also supports taking pictures at regular intervals.
• aruggirello 12y ago
  While 16Mp seems to be a reasonable resolution for traditional images, basic pano resolution is usually (for instance, on 360cities.net) 6000x3000 for equirectangular images, that is 18Mp. Of course if you wish to allow zooming in even a little bit, that number is much, much larger. A modern DSLR with a pano head and a super wideangle/fisheye lens typically enables shooting somewhere in the range of (depending on actual lens setup) 60-300Mp panos with little effort - but of course we're talking about an altogether different gear. BTW, what's the purpose for a crowdsourced StreetView, when we have sites like 360cities.net?