WebODM - An Introduction to a Web Interface for OpenDroneMap to Make Drone Mapping Even Easier

[@JacquesTreehorn]

Thanks Dennis! Good to see you back!

[@dennisbaldwin]

Great to hear from you and hope all is well.

[@JacquesTreehorn]

I have 4 phantom 3 batteries that will not charge. Could be a good vlog!

[@andresabrego269]

Dennis! I miss your flying videos! I found this software reviews amazingly interesting, but you shall not forget the hardware! remember that we also love the "toys"!

[@dennisbaldwin]

Thanks so much for following along. I definitely plan on doing more hardware videos in the near future, but all this software is so amazing that I want to share how to use it. Take care.

[@DeFiNerds]

Thanks, Dennis for showing that to us. I'll give a try.

[@dennisbaldwin]

Awesome. Good luck and let us know how it goes.

[@uassau]

We love using WebODM! We use it in a ton of our drone mapping!

[@dennisbaldwin]

Very cool to hear, Robert. Please feel free to post some links to your work and output from WebODM.

[@CubeVon]

Thank you so much Dennis, great go though tutorial. Looking forward for more videos!

[@dennisbaldwin]

No problem. Thanks for following along. Appreciate the feedback.

[@ggiemax7751]

Thanks Dennis. Some great videos on OpenDroneMap. I'm excited about the advancement of OpenDroneMap, but for those of us that are not command-line savvy, stuck in a spoon-fed GUI world, this is not yet a real option. I wish I could write code, I'd be helping out. DroneDeploy will let me build five 2D/3D orthomosaics a month for free but that's still limiting. I'm not a commercial surveyor, I do this for my own research, so free or low-cost software like OpenDroneMap is promising.

[@dennisbaldwin]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm really liking what the ODM team is up to. I've never used DroneDeploy but am very familiar with them. Maybe I can put together a comparison soon. Good luck with your research.

[@andesconsultingengineers1814]

GGie, I'm new in this Drone world. How can I get orthomosaics in DroneDeploy? I only see a free 30 days trial. Thanks.

[@CuriousKitchen]

Thank you so much for all your great videos. You are a hero.

[@dennisbaldwin]

Thanks Binesh. I appreciate the good words and hope you're doing well.

[@MattMcNiece]

Thanks for the video Dennis. On Windows 10 I found I had to create a .env file in the webodm directory with "COMPOSE_CONVERT_WINDOWS_PATHS=1" and also run the dos2unix command on all the *.YML and *.sh files. After that it worked great. I'd like to understand the Processing Nodes options to see if I can use multiple PCs on my home network.

[@dennisbaldwin]

Wow. Good find on the Windows front. I was not aware of this but hopefully others can benefit from your findings. Thanks.

[@damianbrosnahan]

finding your video's very helpful, look forward to next one!

[@dennisbaldwin]

Thank you. Appreciate you following along.

[@uassau]

Can you do a video on how to take know GCP's and upload them to WebODM

[@crackthecode1372]

U got the solution??

[@crackthecode1372]

If yes? Please tell me!!

[@uassau]

@@crackthecode1372 yes! if you need help email me at [e-mail] and I'll walk you through it

[@seedinnovationspvtltd.937]

I usually get the error saying "refinePatchBFGS failed". But later i get the outputs as well which is not as good as the output from Agisoft Photoscan. Is error the reason for the inaccurate results. If so, how can i prevent from running into this error

[@seedinnovationspvtltd.937]

Great.....awesome project....very useful for my project on sustainable agriculture

[@dennisbaldwin]

Looking forward to learning more about your project. Good luck.

[@speedsterwinston]

What do you suggest for a person like me who is not familiar with open source software. I love the software's capabilities but it's just so convoluted to install. I'm a long time drone flier with my FAA certification and I've historically used precisionmmapper. Now that its shut down, I'd like to find a free or low cost alternative. As a non techie, this is just over my head.

[@joshcooper86]

Hi Dennis, do you think you would be able to do a video on understanding Task Options and improving the quality/output of the task? Or provide some resources on how I can better understand these? I'm a new to the drone scene. Thanks :)

[@dennisbaldwin]

I'll see if I can cover that in an upcoming video. Right now I'm heads down with the latest DJI SDK trying to get a few apps updated. But then I'll get back to it. Thanks for following along and the suggestion.

[@nabilaldhaleai5213]

wow great work i am surprised. Keep on doing the good work

[@dennisbaldwin]

Thank you. WebODM is really an amazing project.

[@TheTkolls]

Thanks for the video! What do you use to plan your flights?

[@dennisbaldwin]

Right now I mainly use DJI GS Pro and sometimes Maps Made Easy.

[@seedinnovationspvtltd.937]

Hello Dennis, I went through the video tutorials. Actually i am doing research on sustainable agriculture using drones (particularly in banana plantation). The opendronemap ran well. However the accuracy is not quite good. I compared the accuracy with Agisoft Photoscan . But with OpenDrone map the same orthomosaic that was clear with Agisoft, had some extra dark patches with OpenDroneMap. Is there any ways that i can improve the accuracy with OpenDroneMap? Thanks for the outstanding work that you guys are doing. Highly appreciate your work Regards, Suman

[@dennisbaldwin]

Suman, thanks for the feedback. I'm not actually an ODM developer although I try to contribute from time to time. You can chat with the time here: gitter.im/OpenDroneMap/OpenDroneMap Please keep me posted on your project. Sounds very interesting.

[@jaymeetsolanki7358]

hello dennis, i want to run this app in mac and i am getting error at the step of " ./webodm.sh start " .....while entering this command i am getting error that - " -bash: ./webodm.sh: No such file or directory " please help to find out the problem

[@adamkelly6264]

Thanks for the video Dennis, I used it to run my first WebODM project with some imagery from my P4. The results are good but I'm having difficulty working out if there is a simple way to get the orthophoto tif into google maps or google earth - any tips?

[@dennisbaldwin]

WebODM will automatically georefence the orthophoto and overlay it on Google Maps. It will also give you the ability to download an orthophoto.tif that you can bring into Google Earth or slice up and host in your own Google Maps site. I'll see if I can put together a video on that soon.

[@gisdude]

Great video! Dennis can you add google map annotations to this and attach/link pictures?

[@dennisbaldwin]

Not yet, but I don't think it will be far off. Good suggestion and I'll see what's on the roadmap.

[@tobikellner8708]

Hey Dennis, this looks amazing! I am interested in doing WebODM on Amazon AWS. Would this simply be a combination of following your two video tutorials - first the one on installing ODM on Amazon, and then this one on using WebODM? If so, would you access the WebODM interface through the browser, using the IP address you get from Amazon? Is there a tutorial that walks you through the whole process? That would be awesome!

[@dennisbaldwin]

Pretty much. The challenge may be that you'll need to open the web port to access it via IP. By default AWS servers are locked down pretty tight. Maybe this will help: stackoverflow.com/questions/17161345/how-to-open-a-web-server-port-on-ec2-instance Good luck!

[@tobikellner8708]

Thanks, Dennis! Also, question from a complete newbie with no experience of AWS: As I'm paying for server use by the hour, would I have to completely re-install the system every time I want to use it? Or can I keep files on the AWS file system even though I am not using (and paying for) CPU cycles?

[@yuktipaliwal7189]

Thanks I am having a problem in processing node it is showing error that node is offline and their is no default processing node

[@mikefoshee5511]

Dennis, Thanks for the video, I've done this successfully once. My question is this, Do I start over every time I run this or do I shortcut past a few steps? Thanks!

[@dennisbaldwin]

I think WebODM makes it pretty simple once you install it. You can upload your imagery each time and it takes care of the rest. Glad to hear you were able to get it running. Thanks so much for the feedback.

[@mikefoshee5511]

Thanks for the response, My question is this. I completed two projects a few weeks ago. Now I want to do another. I'm running Ubuntu 16.04. What is the start point? do I start with terminal and ./webodem.sh start everytime? or do I start earlier or later than that?

[@mikefoshee5511]

Sorry Dennis, I didn't shut down properly last time, I did ./webodem.sh again and in only about 5 minutes webodm was up and running. Thanks again.

[@Tenly2009]

You’ve got a football field with yardage markers clearly visible. Why wouldn’t you have selected 40 or 50 yards using the lines on the field to demonstrate the measurement capabilities? Is the difference between actual and “measured” too great?

[@gleebo5276]

if i buy the installer from the website, will i still need docker and python, or is it just double click and then it just works

[@rmackay9]

great intro, thanks!

[@dennisbaldwin]

No problem Randy. Hope all is well.

[@tyronemiles4345]

Thanks for the video Dennis. I have installed the WebODM on a ubuntu 16.04 vm and run into issues when trying to process my images. The error I received is "Process exited with code 132" any ideas to why? Do I need to also have a server running OpenDroneMap for this to work, and if so can the both be on the same machine? Thanks

[@dennisbaldwin]

Hey Tyrone, I haven't experienced this issue before but please take a look at this thread: github.com/OpenDroneMap/WebODM/issues/330

[@jhonchahua6660]

I use windows 10, when i start wobODM ... ERROR: webapp Cannot create container for service webapp: invalid volume specification : 'C:\ ....\webODM: /webodm:rw' .... Helpme please!

[@AboveandBeyondGlobalDrones]

Jhon Chahua > Docker first, then webODM and make sure you have adequate space available ( windows 10 home users must use Docker toolkit )

[@zsoooc]

Dear Dennis! Thank you for the very useful video! I need some help. I use WebODM on Windows with Docker toolbox. I would like to use GCP-s. But I Don't knwo where to copy the gcp_list.txt. Can you help me?

[@dennisbaldwin]

I'm not sure how this works on Windows as I've never done it on Windows but I can't imagine it being too different. Here is an explanation where it talks about the gcp_list.txt file being in your root folder: github.com/OpenDroneMap/OpenDroneMap/wiki/Running-OpenDroneMap and if you don't put it there you can use the --gcp parameter to specify the location. Good luck and let us know how it goes.

[@AboveandBeyondGlobalDrones]

~> Wow actually did it via an external 4tb drive. Did have to make adjustments in Oracle but it can be done now. Added Qgis, Blender and Blender4web.

[@dennisbaldwin]

Very cool to hear! Would love to see the results.

[@AboveandBeyondGlobalDrones]

Note to All: Oracle VM defaults to 19 gb virtual hard disk. If you don't read the DIVO recommends, then I'll just tell you that that is too small and to open VM (when shut down) and increase Virtual hard disk space to 100 gb. ( as well as # of cpu's) et.al; Otherwise you might wind up with a result of .... 54 KILLED because you ran out of space.

[@tomp.7796]

how do you georeference the point cloud with gcp within the web gui or is this feature still missing?

[@dennisbaldwin]

github.com/OpenDroneMap/WebODM/issues/37 Not currently implemented but looks like it's coming.

[@juanarango1579]

Hello Dennis, Thanks for the video. I was wondering if you could please tell me how to create a new node in WebODM using Chrome 63 on Windows 10 with Docker. Thank you for your help

[@dennisbaldwin]

Hi Juan, good luck with your project. My best suggestion is to read the docs here: github.com/OpenDroneMap/WebODM#getting-started Good luck and let us know how it goes.

[@SamFugarino]

Thanks Dennis!

[@dennisbaldwin]

No problem. Thanks for watching.

[@SamFugarino]

I have a degree in surveying and mapping, but have been a programmer for the last 20 years. This stuff really gets me excited. Very cool!

[@pratyushdas2696]

Thanks a lot for preparing this video Dennis .!!: I tried with default settings with 25 photos taken by Iphone5s but it failed. I have pasted below the error that I got. I would be glad if you could help..:-) Building objmodel: Saving model... Building objmodel: Saving model... done. Whole texturing procedure took: 96.698s [INFO] Running ODM Texturing Cell - Finished [INFO] Running ODM Georeferencing Cell [DEBUG] None [WARNING] No coordinates file. Generating coordinates file: /var/www/data/64e26d38-86c4-4a3a-b234-246a5319e9d8/odm_georeferencing/coords.txt [WARNING] Could not generate coordinates file. Ignore if there is a GCP file. Error: Error in OdmExtractUtm: No valid GPS position found For more detailed information, see log file. [WARNING] Georeferencing failed. Make sure your photos have geotags in the EXIF or you have provided a GCP file. [INFO] Running ODM Georeferencing Cell - Finished [INFO] Running ODM Orthophoto Cell [DEBUG] running /code/build/bin/odm_orthophoto -inputFile /var/www/data/64e26d38-86c4-4a3a-b234-246a5319e9d8/odm_texturing/odm_textured_model.obj -logFile /var/www/data/64e26d38-86c4-4a3a-b234-246a5319e9d8/odm_orthophoto/odm_orthophoto_log.txt -outputFile /var/www/data/64e26d38-86c4-4a3a-b234-246a5319e9d8/odm_orthophoto/odm_orthophoto.png -resolution 20.0 -outputCornerFile /var/www/data/64e26d38-86c4-4a3a-b234-246a5319e9d8/odm_orthophoto/odm_orthophoto_corners.txt [INFO] OpenDroneMap app finished - Sat May 13 18:38:45 2017 PDAL: No type found for undefined dimension ID.

[@dennisbaldwin]

Sorry to hear that. Check out the OpenDroneMap user list and gitter chat. They should be able to steer you in the right direction. Good luck with your mapping.

[@tpalshadow]

Are there plans for a hosted solution so those of us without the hardware or knowledge to do all the install can upload imagery?

[@dennisbaldwin]

Not a bad idea. I'll look and see if there is a way to supply an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) where those who want can spin up an EC2 instance from the AMI and have WebODM automatically running.

[@MikeJordanUnCamplicated]

I like that idea. Any feedback on it?

[@JeanLucHouedanou]

Thanks.

[@dennisbaldwin]

No problem. Hope it helped.

[@tediatmapradhana1309]

how to input GCP in processing

[@dennisbaldwin]

This article talks about it: github.com/OpenDroneMap/OpenDroneMap/wiki/Running-OpenDroneMap

[@AboveandBeyondGlobalDrones]

~> Windows 10 home users, install Docker toolkit!