Bob Eisenman Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 I published a 360 photo sphere to Mapillary in equirectangular format with embedded gps coordinates in the metadata. https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=740117248121670 Since the Google StreetView app has been replaced with 'street view studio' Create and Publish your own Street View images (google.com) The StreetView Studio upoad format is QTVR (mov) and mp4 with embeded or associated gps. The format change favors new 360 camera technology which outperforms my Android phone's camera 360-pano creating capability using and installed copy of the discontinued StreetView app. The Streetview app (no longer available from Google Play Store) can still create 360 photo spheres. The equirectangular format 360 panorama is stored and viewed from the phones internal memory. I own a copy of ptGui which can for example create drone photo panoramas in equirectangular format. The latest version of ptGUI can eport QTVR mov fom source images. I was able to import into ptGUI an equirectangular pano containing gps in the metadata. The gps metadata was removed in the process of exportting the mov file with ptGUI. QTVR (ptgui.comx) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted August 30, 2023 Author Share Posted August 30, 2023 I have taken some 8 miles of Mapillary plotted photo walks in my area. Here is a link to one of them. https://mapillary.com/map/im/3500084346917444 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atdlzpae Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 (edited) I simply download all of the recordings from my SJCAM A10 after every ride. I already have 1.3TB of only EUC rides. In a few decades AI will be able to convert them all into a 3D model, faithfully recreating my trails from 2023 for VR to cure any nostalgia I may have for "good old times". A10 doesn't have a GPS, so it's useless for uploading for now. But in the future it won't matter at all. I do the same with YT videos and websites. If I find a video interesting, I download it. If I find a website interesting, I screenshot it. Stuff disappears from the internet all the time and I prefer to lower the amount of loss I experience. Edited August 31, 2023 by atdlzpae 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
litewave Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 @Bob Eisenman XR capture and sharing will be huge, and PEVs/EUCs can play a big part. Thank you for creating this topic - I have been looking for a platform to develop for and think Mapillary has great potential. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Eisenman Posted September 1, 2023 Author Share Posted September 1, 2023 Exciting.....positive feedback on my post! Mapillary has both Android and Apple apps. Phone-camera use with the app is super simple. (Shoot, review, upload) 16 hours ago, atdlzpae said: A10 doesn't have a GPS, The Mapillary app instructs the phone camera to take/store a series of geotagged phone images. In default mode the photo sets auto delete after uploading. This walk set was a first try with a hand held phone (arm fatigue and inconsistent level but ok). https://mapillary.com/map/im/675978554392541 After the second hand held phone set I watched this video and bought the gimbal which is slightly tilted but unadjustable within the Mapillary app. Action cams with GPS (as in integrated camera gps or gps grabbed from an action-camera app) image stabilization, 360 potential, etc would be on point but take more effort to prepare for uploading to Mapillary. https://forum.mapillary.com/c/contributing-and-equipment/41 6 hours ago, litewave said: Mapillary has great potential. .....and is a recent Facebook acquisition https://blog.mapillary.com/news/2020/06/18/Mapillary-joins-Facebook.html Some older Mapillary forum posts show user screen grabs showing view counts (before Facebook acquisition?) for photo groups like the Google Maps contributor view counts but I've not seen a view counter associated with my stuff (yet). A college friend from the 1970s took a trip to India. He posted a single photo of the Taj Mahal to social media from around this location in 2001. I messaged this Mapillary link to him https://mapillary.com/map/im/2089446591195469 He wrote: "Never heard of the app, but interesting. I haven't traveled anywhere since 2001. Long ago memories. As a matter of fact, India was my last "real" trip." His office and family condo (he was a NY lawyer) was at the base of the World Trade Center and he became 'displaced' following 9-11. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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