New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to Build Your Own (Mini) Google Street View?

Ask HN: How to Build Your Own (Mini) Google Street View?
2 by nickreese | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey all, I'm pro-bono consulting with a small European economic area and found myself thinking: "There must be someone on HN who has solved this problem." Question: With a small budget but ample manpower how would you build a small scale Google Street View to take a snapshot of the road system and infrastructure in an area? It seems that quotes we're receiving for GPS tagged location data (500k+) are outrageous compared to the cost of buying a camera (~20-30k) and mounting it on a truck to survey the area... then building a small dashboard to have locals tag the data. In total there are ~300km of roads to survey. Anyone familiar with this? Any open source tools for managing this sort of data? Is it crazy to think we could pull this off for a fraction of the cost?