Video driving, walking or cycling directions is ane of those ideas which sounds fantastic inward regulation too oftentimes looks amazing too engaging inward practice. However it is also ane of those amazing ideas which no-one has been able to railroad train into a feasible business. Maybe HyperlapseMap volition endure the exception to the rule.
HyperlapseMap allows you lot to explore London on an interactive map of video routes. Click on the bluish markers on the map too you lot tin stance a hyperlapse video of the road (shown on the map past times a bluish line). As the video plays you lot tin usage the arrow keys to alter directions. Press left or correct too at the adjacent junction the video volition alter to demo the novel selected route.
Perhaps the virtually pop video map I know of was the right away defunct Cyclodeo. Cyclodeo used videos synchronized alongside an interactive map inward fellowship to permit cyclists to preview cycling routes across the world. In the halt Cyclodeo had video coverage inward a release of major global cities. However the fact that the website has right away dived into the dead-pool suggests that it didn't generate plenty users to larn out a feasible concern. Although Cyclodeo is right away gone you lot tin withal stance the thousands of cycling routes captured on video on the Cyclodeo YouTube channel.
While a 'Street View' type video map has never yet managed to capture the public's imagination Mapillary has proved that at that topographic point is a feasible concern inward capturing too mapping street grade imagery to a greater extent than or less the world. I suspect that Mapillary's success has been due inward large operate to its success inward crowdsourcing that street grade imagery.
If HyperlapseMap is to endure every bit successful every bit Mapillary too then it also needs to endure successful inward attracting crowdsourced videos. At the minute HyperlapseMap says you lot tin submit videos shot on a stabilized photographic goggle box camera past times uploading the video to YouTube too drawing the road on a Google Map. You too then simply request to mail a link to the video too map to HyperlapseMap. Currently that procedure seems to stimulate got likewise many barriers for users. For crowdsourcing to actually stimulate got off I suspect HyperlapseMap needs to railroad train a unproblematic arrangement where users tin upload videos to Hyperlapse itself too depict the outline of the road submitted on an interactive map.
I actually promise HyperlapseMap succeeds. These hyped-up videos of London are a non bad means to explore the metropolis inward double quick fourth dimension too from anywhere inward the world. It would endure fantastic to endure able to explore other cities to a greater extent than or less the basis on HyperlapseMap if it tin successfully generate user submitted crowdsourced content.
