2026-08-29 –, La Réunion Language: English
Street-level imagery has a huge potential for OpenStreetMap mappers. Panoramax is a project to collect and manage street-level imagery, implemented as free and opensource software. It allows the crowdsourcing of images, which are then usually openly licensed.
Nowadays, Panoramax allows 2D images management and visualization : images are located at a specific location, and displayed in a 2D visualization widget.
We are working on full 3D support for Panoramax : enabling point cloud visualization and images simultaneously, integrating panoramic images or oriented images inside the 3D world, and adding 3D visualization capabilities to Panoramax.
We present the current state of work and what this new approach opens in terms of new usages for OSM mappers.
In this presentation, we detail the work we are carrying out for 3D support inside Panoramax. We will start with a quick description of Panoramax and current limitations for end users.
Then we will talk about the goals we pursue : adding 3D capabilities to Panoramax, and enabling new usages for mappers.
We detail the architecture we designed, how 3D capabilities will be added to the Panoramax platform, technical choices we made, and the link between Panoramax data, images, trajectories and OpenStreetMap.
We then demo the current state of the development, before discussing further steps and new use cases for all mappers.
Panoramax, OpenSource, Software, 3D, Visualization
Affiliation:Oslandia
Vincent Picavet is an applied maths engineer originally. Involved in OpenSource and OpenData movements since the beginning of the 21st century, he founded Oslandia in 2009, providing services for OpenSource GIS in general and particularly around QGIS. Vincent regularly talks at national and international conferences on topics related to Spatial data, Free Software and GIS.