This note records work that began with field photography in the Psiloritis area in 2016. The material became a way to learn through actual places: planning visits, recording photographs and sound, processing the files and connecting them to web applications.
One body of material, several presentations
The collection included individual photographs, stitched ground and aerial panoramas, time-lapse sequences, aerial video and sound. A single panorama or photograph could contribute to more than one presentation, provided its location and other descriptive information remained connected to the file.
The work therefore involved organising and revisiting the source material as well as building each viewer. A gallery, a slideshow, a map and a virtual tour can draw on the same records while answering different questions.
Panoramic presentation
The Psiloritis presentation used linked spherical photographs to let a viewer look around selected places. The same material could be shown as a guided slideshow or explored interactively.
Geographic context
An experimental ArcGIS 3D map connected the panoramas to the wider terrain. It placed photographs and points of interest in a geographic context, extending the view beyond the camera position.
The Mygia trail example
The smaller Mygia area provided another test. An orthophoto and an elevation model were produced for that area, giving it a different level of detail from the wider geopark presentation.
What this work contributed
These were evolving applications, and some remained experiments. The useful connection was between the original material, its geographic context and the different ways to explore it. The Psiloritis project page brings the related presentations together.
The later Geotour Crete project continues my interest in connected documentation. This older note does not describe Geotour’s current architecture.