Using GDAL Tools to Convert Drone Imagery and Orthomosaics to Google Map Tiles

[@yuuthehobo]

Thank you so much Dennis! I was just about to give up on a current project that had to read large tiff files on a Google Map basemap but your video saves me big time. Thank you so so much!!

[@leithhawkins2165]

Thanks your a legend!! I have used your tuts for a number of things over the years .

[@dennisbaldwin]

You're too kind. Thanks for the support.

[@leithhawkins2165]

If you are ever in Oz let me know I'll buy you a beverage of choice.

[@adibbins]

Great Dennis, I look forward to the opensource workflow you mentioned, might you consider keeping these youtube videos in a playlist say "Aerial Survey workflow's" it'll make the finding and watch a sequence much easier for us the viewers. Thx

[@dennisbaldwin]

Great suggestion. When I do the next series on OpenDroneMap I will put these all in a playlist. I appreciate that suggestion and you following along.

[@DeFiNerds]

Thanks Dennis for sharing. Yes, Photoscan is very expensive. I tried OpenDroneMap once, but I couldn't make to work right. The results were not good. So I'm looking forward for your next video covering that. Thanks again.

[@dennisbaldwin]

Thanks. I hope to get to that soon!

[@pinzgauernorcal]

PIX4D has an easy tool for generating google earth KMZ files as you probably know. great video, always a pleasure to watch.

[@dennisbaldwin]

Yes. I'm familiar with that and so does Photoscan Pro. I just wanted to show a little bit of what goes on under the hood. This will be useful when I cover OpenDroneMap in an upcoming series. Thanks for the good words and hope you're doing well.

[@iainhmunro]

Greta video - an I ask where you got the floating widget from?

[@LucasLena]

Thanks for sharing Dennis!!

[@dennisbaldwin]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching.

[@CezarPopescu]

Thank you for sharing, Dennis! Lookjng forward to your next video. #opensource #ftw

[@dennisbaldwin]

You're welcome and thanks for the good words. I'm definitely a fan of open source. If you are into software at all please feel free to get involved with some of our open source projects. Mainly DronePan and DroneBlocks :) They are on github if you want to take a look. github.com/dbaldwin/dronepan Take care.

[@hans6304]

Super duper as usual, Dennis. Would you mind telling us which PhotoScan edition you're using? The Pro edition costs too much for me, though. Really looking forward to your next video on Open Drone Map :)

[@dennisbaldwin]

Thanks for the good words. I have complimentary version of Photoscan Pro only for research purposes. I have a contract with Agisoft to not use it for commercial purposes. I will do the ODM video soon. Take care.

[@RawLiquid-IN]

But how does one get into such a contract with them? I'm trying to do some things with offroad maps that would be at least questionable if I used google maps(license wise) and have been struggling to come up with a reasonable solution that doesn't have a huge pricetag. I am affiliated with a registered non profit group, and anything done would likely bear their name and be free of charge...

[@AerialAgents]

VERY useful. Thanks so much for sharing. Do you think there will ever be a way for users to upload these photo titles to Google maps permanently for others to see?

[@dennisbaldwin]

That's a great question. I've been looking for a way to contribute my maps to Google. There is the Open Aerial Map initiative that I've been following here: docs.openaerialmap.org/ I'll do some more research and share my findings. Please do the same.

[@ryankey9938]

Awesome man! thanks for sharing

[@dennisbaldwin]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching.

[@bandgweddings]

Hi thanks for all the tutorials but how do you host the files to share online? You jump around a lot in your work flow videos would be nice if you had them in a series. Also photoscan pro can export to google tiles why don't you use that?

[@dennisbaldwin]

Sorry...I know I'm a bit disorganized in my workflow. I will work on getting everything sorted out. After I export the geotiff and run it through gdal2tiles I just upload the files to my server. You can see them here: www.unmannedairlines.com/dev/tiger_stadium/ I do this instead of exporting out of Photoscan Pro just so I have control of the workflow. I just like knowing each step of the process and what's going on in between. Hope that makes sense.

[@bandgweddings]

Yes that is great thanks for answering and for all of your work :)

[@raffygumangannet]

@@dennisbaldwin Hi Dennis, Great Tutorial. Do you mind sharing the code on how do you put the layered Map tiles and have it layered by radio button.

[@mantisview8082]

Hi Dennis, what a great video it helped me a lot on processing my dji inspire1 pics using open source tools. Do you have any video or tutorial for the google maps widget for multiple layers? Thanks a lot men!

[@dennisbaldwin]

If you look at the source code on this page it's pretty easy to understand: www.unmannedairlines.com/dev/tiger_stadium/ But I'll see if I can do a video in the near future. Thanks for watching.

[@tonykhlaf250]

Great video....

[@dennisbaldwin]

Thank you. Hope it helped somewhat.

[@alwaystravelling100]

Just confirming, a program like Pix4D Mapper now creates these Google Tiles without the need to follow this process. Correct?

[@muhammadzharfanadlizahisha6630]

Hi! I have a set of overlapping images in JPEG that my team captured using a DJI P4P. I've used ODM, Agisoft Metashape, and DJI Terra to process the images (from the raw JPEGS to TIFF to tiles) but I'm wondering if I can do the entire processing only in GDAL. Any help?

[@dennisbaldwin]

I haven't had much luck stitching ortho imagery with the gdal tools. I might suggest looking into MapTiler (www.maptiler.com/) it's a product created by the developers of the GDAL tools. Maybe it will help you out. Good luck with your project.

[@muhammadzharfanadlizahisha6630]

@@dennisbaldwin I see. Alright I'll check it out. Thanks! :)

[@WalterAndreeff]

Good job!

[@dennisbaldwin]

Thanks. Appreciate the feedback.

[@miqnaulhaqsiregar5269]

great, tile maps provide us to easily create raster map at multizoom scale level

[@dennisbaldwin]

I totally agree. Thanks for the comment.

[@LucasLena]

Hi Dennis, what is the way to put the radio buttons for the timeline? Thanks

[@dennisbaldwin]

If you go to this link: www.unmannedairlines.com/dev/tiger_stadium/ you can view source on the page and see how the radio buttons are implemented. Good luck and let us know if you run into any more problems.

[@manishsahu3612]

This is great but can you tell us how to generate timeline of raster(like you did in the video with different date images of same field)? Can you share any link or specific keyword so that we can find it ourselves too you might not find time to do every video. Thanks

[@dennisbaldwin]

Take a look at this example I put together. Hopefully it will help you: unmannedairlines.com/dev/tiger_stadium/

[@manishsahu3612]

Dennis, Thanks for the link. I have seen it and it is great. I wanted to create similar link for my dataset. So can you tell how can I generate it from my dataset?

[@colinjohnson5835]

This is great, I would also like to add timeline to my work would be good if you could show us how you did this dennis Manish did you have any success with this? Thanks

[@raffygumangannet]

@@colinjohnson5835 Still cannot figure out how to load or link each dates of tiles.

Hello, can you make a video how to setup gimbal dys smart3 ?

[@dennisbaldwin]

If I get my hands on one I'll definitely do a video.