GigaPans

I am a real fan of the UK's Ordnance Survey (OS) 1:50000 maps. I own very many of them and am always delighted to have an excuse to get one out and pour over the wonderful details that one can find in them. I also do a bit of computer programming and in the Summer of 2009 I did some research to see if I could combine my love of maps with gigapans and this is the result. At that time I couldn't get permission to make the images public but a while ago OS relaxed their rules ...

For an...

An attempt at the World Record for the greatest number of gratuitous occurrences of the same person in a gigapan (140mm lens) without using Photoshop.

Many thanks to the wonderful Miss Pixie for being so patient!

Update: The bar has been raised to 22 occurrences - see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=21255.

A fashion show held in the Assembly Rooms, Bath.

The gigapan is a collage of images taken at different exposures and apertures and it nearly worked!

[Pictures\2012-03-30 Bath Fashion\merge3-IMG_5203_IMG_5357-106 images]

This is the view from the roof of Bath Abbey.

I am amazed by this pano because I never expected it to stitch.

I was delighted to get access to the roof of the main tower of the abbey, but dismayed when I realised the parapets were too high to see over, so there was no clear view of anything, and each corner of the roof has some tall stonework so even if I could get a view from one of the sides of the tower then I wouldn't be able to take a 360° pano.

Given there was nothing else I...

The fourth of four gigapans I took along the South Bank. I love this scene for the range of architecture on display. There is nearly 1000 years of building in this shot.

I would have liked to continue my journey eastward along the Thames but didn't have the time. In any case Denmca has beaten me to it: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27970.

For this shot I used my Sony at maximum zoom (x15) with its £99 1.7x teleconverter giving me 80 rows by 16 columns (1280 images). There...

Seatown, Dorset at 9:30am.

I went to Seatown with my friend Igor many years ago. We camped in a field right next to the beach and a pub that did good food, and I remembered it as very pleasant spot. So when my friend - fossil-head cmlbath - told me that it was one of the best places in the country for fossils, I suggested we go there and we did. There is a companion shot taken from the beach here: http://tinyurl.com/qslfgy.

As you can see, the camp site has grown somewhat! It even has its ...

The weather for the day of this pano was supposed to "heavy rain", so it was a big surprise to find myself in a quiet field with this spectacular view and wonderful weather.

In fact, I would go so far as to say it was an uplifting experience. Later on I slipped and ended up falling completely flat into six inches of liquid mud, and my reaction was to lie there and laugh out loud.

See http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=10384 for an alternative view.

This shot was taken...

Taken from the roof of Bath College's Macaulay building in ten minutes between showers.

For a view taken at street level just in front of where this was shot, see http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/36578/..

My first 1Gpix+ image taken with a GigaPan Unit.

For a false HDR rendering of (a portion of) this pano, see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=8845.

For a good close-up of the city centre see http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=26794.