I’m not a huge open source person, in that most of the code I write ends up closed — mostly out of sheer embarrassment at its quality.
But I feel a little better about releasing Hack Day code, because I have an excuse for my ugly: get it working quickly, at all costs. Nevermind that that’s how I usually write.
So, full source to the iPad app demoed today: http://github.com/trevyn/HeliumView
The camera code is a little more unwieldy (and not written entirely at hack day!), but I’ll take a look at it later and get it up as well.
Thanks to Stephanie, Paul, Ariel, Ian, Tantek, Lindsay, and everyone else for an awesome weekend!
Very interesting! I’d love to see photos/screenshots… is it a rubber-sheeting interface?
Screenshot posted. In use, it feels most like a Cover Flow for aerial imagery. Orthorectified imagery seems more useful in general, though admittedly more time-consuming to generate.
Perhaps there’s a utility in adding a time dimension to the captured photos to analyze traffic patterns, etc. We thought it’d be pretty cool to do grassroots mapping of an event, tradeshow, or other large indoor gathering.