QGIS plugin or web app? Lessons learned in the development of a 3D georeferencer
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Spatial and Geographic Information Systems, Programming Languages
- Keywords
- camera orientation, 3D georeferencer, VGI, web-application, plugin, historical images, virtual globe
- Copyright
- © 2016 Produit et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. QGIS plugin or web app? Lessons learned in the development of a 3D georeferencer. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2243v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2243v1
Abstract
Collections of historical images are currently being scanned to stop their degradation and to enable a numeric exploitation. These collections have a high cultural, artistic and scientific value. However, they are not fully exploited because the photographs do not have a georeference (geographic information cannot be extracted from the picture) and are poorly labeled (makes searching in a database inefficient). During the last years, we developed a QGIS plugin and a web app dedicated to the georeferencing of photographs and the linking of images with spatial data. In this paper, we discuss the technologies involved and compare both implementations. The results suggest that both approaches are valuable but provide different advantages in term of target users and development effort.
Author Comment
This is an article intended for the OGRS2016 Collection
Session: "Free Open Source Software in Remote Sensing for Earth and Planetary Sciences" or "Modelling spatio-temporal processes using open source geospatial tools"