We are looking for software or a web service that we can put in pictures we took using our weather balloon to create a single image, that we can use as a layer for our GIS project. Preferably free, or free for education.
EDIT: We use a ESRI system
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- OpenGeo Education Center offers materials focusing mostly on web mapping using PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GeoServer and javascript (OpenLayers and GeoExt)
- Not really a workshop, but GISTutor is good source of begginer/intermediate level tutorials.
- E-Learning materials from Geospatial Data Mining course (eduGI.net - International Network for Education in Geographic Information Science).
- Spatial Databases course materials (School of Computing, Dublin Institute of Technology)
- An introduction to Open Source Geospatial Information Systems - talk by Gavin Jackson @ OSDC 2011
- Broom Spatial R Class notes from Frank Davenport
MapQuest Open Aerial Tiles
Global Coverage (higher zoom level in the US)
MapQuest Open Aerial Tile URL example:
Terms of Use
The MapQuest Open Tiles are available for use for free under the following conditions: http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/map#terms
MapQuest Open Aerial Tile URL example: http://oatile1.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/sat/15/5240/12661.jpg
Replace http://a.tile.openstreetmap.org with http://oatile1.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/sat.
Note: There are 4 subdomains set up for the MapQuest-hosted tiles: oatile1 to oatile4. All subdomains point to the same CDN. Just like with OSM’s a.tile to c.tile subdomains, the MapQuest subdomains are provided to work around browser limitations on the number of simultaneous HTTP connections to each “host”. Browser-based applications can request multiple map tiles from multiple subdomains faster than requesting map tiles from just one subdomain.
Please also note that global coverage is provided at zoom levels 0-11. Zoom Levels 12+ are provided only in the United States (lower 48).
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The Towson University geospatial research & education lab has done something similar. They used Microsoft Image Composite Editor to mosaic pictures captured from a balloon and Microsoft Photosynth for capturing and viewing in 3D.
http://pages.towson.edu/morgan/bap/BAP_Poster.pdf
See the contact info on the PDF for more information/questions.