In 2021 I had two rounds of image capture: May/June and November. These resulted in two separate development paths.
StreetNav
The first was with my Samsung 360 degree camera in the hopes of creating a user interface resembling the Street View navigation in Google’s Maps product.
In searching for a delivery tool I found one called marzipano. My first attempt with marzipano was to link the 360 degree photos together . . . and it kind of worked. It needs much work – what I can show you now is simply a very limited first attempt.
You can see that here.
Some things to note:
The side bar menu lists shots by the name of the photograph and should be referring to the street address . . . this will change.
When you click on a link to go to the next image the direction-of-view is not preserved – it’s fixed on whatever that POV is set to. This will be fixed in a future implementation (I hope).
A number of other things will have to change – and work will be done on that IF I decide to carry on with marzipano.
Houses
The second round of image capture saw me walk around every still standing house to take pictures from all angles around it. I did this in November of 2021 – at this time the leaves had left the trees (good for visuals) but the snow hadn’t fallen yet (good for not stepping on debris).
I had to choose between trying to find a plug-in that worked with WordPress (the CMS I’m using) OR make something myself. I chose to handcraft the code I needed adopting and adapting code examples from W3Schools.com – a good place to begin or refresh your web site knowledge.
That can be viewed here.
It’s still early days – these are just examples to show proof-of-concept. At some point I’ll tie them together so clicking on a house in ‘StreetNav’ will bring up the same multi-angle presentation in ‘houses’ . . . but that’s for a future implmentation.