Open Panorama

An end to end solution for processing, normalisation, anonymisation and serving 360° street view panoramas. From raw files to API.

At the City of Amsterdam, our civil servants need access to up to date street view images to do their job. We drive through the city multiple times per year to get the latest images. We’ve built Open Panorama to turn the photos we take into a server that serves 360° panorama images over the web.

You can see the 360° panorama images of the streets of Amsterdam on data.amsterdam.nl.

For more information on how to use, check out the GitHub repository: Amsterdam/panorama

Panorama camera on a City of Amsterdam car

What Open Panorama does

Open Panorama does not attach any cameras to your car and does not drive around the city to take the photos; you still have to do that yourself. However, Open Panorama does do most of what follows:

  1. Import panoramas: from an ObjectStore including metadata CSVs into a database.
  2. Normalisation: images are edited to face northwards and have a straight horizon.
  3. Image recognition and blurring: finding sensitive data like people and licence plates and blurring those. With Docker Swarm cluster support.
  4. Create tiles: for faster loading and less client-intensive use in viewers (like our own PanoViewer, and/or Marzipano and other viewers) the blurred 360° panorama images are reprojected and turned into tiles.
  5. Serving over APIs: A server that provides API endpoints in Rest and OGC (WMS/WFS) for the locations, metadata and the tiles. As well as a REST-API to get a thumbnail for a certain location.

Using the Panoramas

We’ve published a JavaScript library that is built on Marzipano and allows others to integrate our Amsterdam streets into their sites.

All Projects

Atlas

Interface for the Open Data APIs of Amsterdam Data and Information

Authz

OAuth 2.0 authorization service written in Go

Basisstatistiek

Descriptive statistics about the population and real estate of Amsterdam

Data-Processing

Tooling to make working with the api.data.amsterdam.nl api's a breeze.

OpenStad: De Stem Van…

Enabling cities to share ideas and put them on the local political agenda

datapunt-api tooling

django-rest-framework utilities and styling.

Internet of things registry

Internet of Things related projects. registration and storing sensor data

Open Panorama

End to end solution for processing, normalisation, anonymisation and serving 360° street view panoramas

PanoViewer

JavaScript library for 360° street views of Amsterdam, Almere and Amstelveen.

PDOK BAG Geocoder QGIS Plugin

QGIS plugin to get the location of adresses and objects in the Netherlands