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Viability of Using Dashcam Footage? #148

Closed ghost closed 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

The OpenStreetCam application is clearly a work-in-progress and until those issues are resolved, it's of very little use to some people... Myself included.

But what about the dashcams in my car?

I have a front dashcam and a rear dashcam - both of which capture relatively high-quality footage... And as you would expect, these can run all day without issue.

Is it viable to use the footage from these for OpenStreetCam and why/why not? If so, can we have the respective option added to the OpenStreetCam website?

james2432 commented 6 years ago

Your images would need to be individually geo tagged(thus why you use your phone as it has an integrated gps).

To do that with a dashcam you'd have to record a gpx on your phone then time sync each photo with the gpx track (really a pain and very manual and error prone)

ghost commented 6 years ago

Ah, well that's a shame. It was a thought though...

Feel free to close or delete this "issue" then (I can't seem to find an option to do so on my end).

mprins commented 6 years ago

there are plenty of dashcams that have built-in gps which provides a trackfile eg. gpx format side-by-side of a recording there really is no need for an external gps device in those cases

james2432 commented 6 years ago

dashcams would have to record in jpg as well and they usually record in mpeg/mp4

and before you say so does the mobile app, it's different they are using the video as a compression method for photos(each frame is a photo at high res) vs an actual video each frame is relatively low res(2MP)

alexandrui-telenav commented 6 years ago

As a side note, we're now working with https://www.waylens.com for a deep integration of OSC in the firmware ( including direct upload ). I've been testing that for a while and indeed it's way less friction than using a phone, and it's always connected to the car through the OBD. Stay tuned for some further news on that!