Just started with Panoramax 360 images

Just wanted to share that I’ve started uploading my first Panoramax images in the region Winterthur.

I’m still working on the setup and will share later more information about the documentation and the scripts used. As you may see from the images, I’m still using a broom stick instead of a monopod :sweat_smile:

As a quick idea the setup is a bike with a 360 camera recording in timelapse mode and GPS watch recording the track.

After getting the video file and the GPX track, I run a few command line tools to do the frame extraction, stiching, masking, geotagging and removal of duplicates. After a quick manual check I perform the update using the command line tool for Panoramax upload.

I’ve designed the tool that the processing works directly with the raw video file without having to use the proprietary software to do the stiching. The stiching line is slightly visible, but it saves time and ensures that the images are in the best quality available.

Additionally the images are discarded whenever I pause the recording on the GPS watch. This gives an easy way to ensure directly on the terrain that images from sensitive areas (events, pool, …) won’t be uploaded.

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Welcome :slight_smile:

Appreciate you uploading images to a place that’s run by the people for the people.

The French instances are for testing only if the images are not located in France. So if you upload just a few pics that’s ok.

Please read OSM-FR Panoramax server "only for testing if outside of France"

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Especially if you show how the quality is superior to another street viewer showing more photos inside shops than street views where you are. At the crossing Eulachstrasse/Eulachstrasse ;-).

I’ve also added 360° imagery of hiking trails, using a dedicated server (thanks to Mathias).

Until very recently, I wasn’t aware that Panoramax imagery was available as a layer in the OSM iD editor, so I thought it was worth mentioning it again here, in case others might find it useful when editing the map using this source.

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