Bug 157574

Summary:	crowdsource the imagery review process
Product:	[Applications] marble	Reporter:	Wolfram R. Sieber <Wolfram.R.Sieber>
Component:	general	Assignee:	marble-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	marble-bugs, moltonel, nienhueser
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
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Description Wolfram R. Sieber 2008-02-10 06:09:19 UTC

Version:           1.0.0 (using KDE 4.0.0DevelKDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    I Don't KnowDebian stable PackagesDebian stable Packages
OS:                Linux

Sorry, since I am not yet using KDE 4.0.0 I had to fake some of the OS, KDE version etc. data to make your bugzilla (?) let me in to put not a bug here but a feature request. (Why the heck is that beast that reluctant to leave me in to put a feature request here? -- I think, at least for not-bugs it should be easier to come in.)

I am not yet using marble, but I read much about it, am interested in it as in GEarth. Just saw this report http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/02/about_google_earth_imagery.html on the recentness of imagery in that product and presume, marble's using roughly the same data. - If you could get your hands onto the more up-to-date pigture data, such as weather data or that daily planet, I think, it might be worth the effort to enable users to mark spots as bein good..high quality. Some algorithm might determine what's really good quality and what's "Oops!'.

As GE isn't doing this - as far as I know, I think, marble could take this as an advantage over GE, be more up-to-date.
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Just an idea/suggestion. However, I thought, it was worth to mention this to you fellow developers & file this feature request. Thanks for considering (no thanks for blaming me, if there's an error in reasoning in it;).

Comment 1 Wolfram R. Sieber 2008-02-10 06:12:46 UTC

You know that NASA crowdsourcing project where they enabled passers-by to mark "interesting spots" or craters on Mars imagery. That's what I have in mind; I think it might work for marble and weather data as well: you won't need to use the whole picture but only the parts people select as being high quality.

Comment 2 Vincent de Phily 2011-12-05 23:06:33 UTC

That's arguably outside the scope of marble ?

Marble is only a consumer of satellite data, it has no control on the high-res satellite imagery sources it uses. Unless some imagery provider has an api to crowdsource its data (go ask them), I suggest closing this bug as wontfix.

Comment 3 Dennis Nienhüser 2012-05-19 11:10:40 UTC

Currently this is indeed out of the scope of Marble.

A bit related is bug 300306 maybe.