Talk:Photo mapping

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Memory Problems with Photo Mapping

I hit some fairly chronic memory problems when trying to do Photo Mapping in JOSM.

First time I tried, it crashed (well repeatedly warned of low memory and refused to do anything else), meaning I lost my work. But since then I've been more cautious, resizing all my photos to a miniscule 300x200, and only opening about 15 at once. Still it runs out of memory after using it for a while, requiring JOSM to be restarted.

Hmmm... I guess this would be the bug (and fix!?) : http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/526

minor? Isn't anybody doing photo mapping?? Maybe I've just got less memory than everyone else :-(

-- Harry Wood 16:39, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

OK looks like Frederick fixed it very recently (10th Dec 2007 bug #84). So anyone seeing this still, just download the latest JOSM. Seems to be working for me-- Harry Wood 21:42, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Distinguishing the different time stamps

Photos can have several timestamps.

• EXIF timestamp - specific to certain formats like JPG, embedded inside a photo
• Filesystem level timestamp - A generic file timestamp most file systems have.

The article should distinguish the two.

• Which one does JOSM use? Is it configurable? Is it both?
• Explain that filesystem timestamps can easily be lost in certain transfer methods. (Which? mass storage? MTP? HTTP?)

It appears audio mapping only relies on filesystem level timestamps and audio files rarely have embedded timestamps, but I need to dig deeper to be sure.

-- SwiftFast (talk) 10:27, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

General landscape photos should be noted in OSM?

Let's say User A leaves all trails and walks directly through the woods from point B to C taking pictures every 300 paces at coordinates D1/D2 etc. (i.e., NOT points of interest) and puts them on the Internet at URLs E, F, G in the Public Domain.

So are they of any value to OSM? Should their locations somehow be added to OSM? Jidanni (talk) 00:47, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

This kind of pictures are suitable for upload to services like Mapillary. Mapillary sequences are usable in both JOSM & iD. --Hjart (talk) 16:36, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Pic4Carto

is a dead project and should be removed from the article, right?

Done Bkil (talk) 10:34, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, but the website came to life. So I've reverted the change. Again, thanks anyways for making the change. --Hermann-san (talk) 15:10, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Move info about geotagging software to dedicated Geotagging page

Information about geotagging software is duplicated on this Photo mapping page and the Geotagging Source Photos page. To make it easier to maintain, we should consolidate this information on the Geotagging Source Photos page and remove the section from Photo mapping. While we're at it, we should check how current each project is and whether they are still worth mentioning.

--Yo scottie oh (talk) 22:02, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Deduplicate Websites/projects about geolocating photos

A few entries from Street-level imagery services are manually mentioned ad-hoc in this section and it seems to be growing all the time. I suggest the whole section should be removed from here. Bkil (talk) 14:16, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

I agree. But also would it be better to have “Other Software” and “Websites/projects about geolocating photos” to be turned to something like “Photo Exif Manager Software” and “Taking Photo Software/Sources”. (I can’t think of a better name) Broiledpeas (talk) 14:29, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Maybe I'm not parsing you fully, but I agree that a separation between "sources of hosted imagery" and "online services to access such imagery" could also be separated. I.e., some websites are only aggregating images hosted at other websites. This might still be best done in a new table on Street-level imagery services. In general, "Other Software" is not a very good name for a section. Offline software that helps you organize your own photos is a different question altogether, so a well defined section for that could help (JOSM can also help with this). Bkil (talk) 14:45, 5 August 2024 (UTC)