<story><title>Openly Licensed Streetview with Panoramax</title><url>https://tzovar.as/open-source-streetview/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maelito</author><text>In case you wonder, Panoramax instances are 100 % French for now. Even if the OSM-FR instance can be used for photos outside of France, don&amp;#x27;t expect yet to see lots of international photos on it. It takes time to communicate and convince people it&amp;#x27;s a good idea.&lt;p&gt;In France though, a few months ago, there was not really more than one big french city (Strasbourg) captured in 360°.&lt;p&gt;Now, more than ten big cities have interesting coverage. Check out this link to see a map of all the 360° photos &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;api.panoramax.xyz&amp;#x2F;#focus=map&amp;amp;map=7.33&amp;#x2F;47.583&amp;#x2F;0.742&amp;amp;pic_type=equirectangular&amp;amp;speed=250&amp;amp;theme=default&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;api.panoramax.xyz&amp;#x2F;#focus=map&amp;amp;map=7.33&amp;#x2F;47.583&amp;#x2F;0.742&amp;amp;p...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In fact, lots of municipalities already have 360° photos of their streets... sleeping on their servers.&lt;p&gt;Interesting fact : in France, public funded administrations must open their data, by law, exceptions aside.&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer : I&amp;#x27;m not working on the Panoramax project, but plugged it on &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cartes.app&amp;#x2F;?choix+du+style=oui&amp;amp;rue=oui#6.67&amp;#x2F;47.493&amp;#x2F;2.177&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cartes.app&amp;#x2F;?choix+du+style=oui&amp;amp;rue=oui#6.67&amp;#x2F;47.493&amp;#x2F;2...&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;laem&amp;#x2F;cartes&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;laem&amp;#x2F;cartes&lt;/a&gt;), the French open source alternative to Google Maps, which is in dire need of good quality 360° photos !</text></comment>
<story><title>Openly Licensed Streetview with Panoramax</title><url>https://tzovar.as/open-source-streetview/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nullc</author><text>Perhaps relevant to this subject, there are now &amp;lt;$400  three-band GNSS compass receivers (e.g. two three band receivers in a single unit so you can run two antennas with a meter or two baseline and get accurate headings in addition to position), based on the Unicorecomm UM982 chipset. E.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ardusimple.com&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;simplertk3b-compass&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ardusimple.com&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;simplertk3b-compass&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;  (There are other vendors, but I&amp;#x27;ve done business with this one before)&lt;p&gt;I mention it because for imaging, small heading errors have way more impact on where you&amp;#x27;re looking than small position errors  but single antenna gps doesn&amp;#x27;t really give you headings except with assumptions from motion.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve got one sitting in a box here, haven&amp;#x27;t tried it out yet but plan to soon...</text></comment>