Simon Willison’s Weblog

9th June 2009 - Link Blog

Augmenting photos - with OSM! “You climbed up a mountain and took a photo ... but it’s 2009! Why doesn’t it have all kind of magic over the top of it.”—Marmota matches your landscape photos to height field data, then overlays data from OpenStreetMap mapped to the contours of the photograph.

Posted 9th June 2009 at 11:34 am

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