Mapillary Is Building a Crowdsourced Street View with User Submitted Photos

Mapillary Is Building a Crowdsourced Street View with User Submitted Photos(petapixel.com)

48 points by gyllen 11 years ago | 6 comments

tombrossman 11 years ago |

This looks pretty but what's in it for me? The service is proprietary - it's a data silo with some very restrictive T&C's.

They are using Open Street Map for some of it and I'm already a happy contributor to that open platform. Maybe I missed it in the press release reprinted by petapixel.com but I don't see what financial incentive contributors have. Maybe I'm out of touch but saying I'm 'empowered' and that this is 'crowdsourced' isn't that interesting.

jesolem 11 years ago | |

As an OSM contributor you might be interested in the fact that every photo is immediately available in the iD editor for everyone to use. (JOSM will happen one day too) The American Red Cross is taking photos on Mapillary for Missing Maps, etc.

As a regular person you get a service for sharing geotagged photos of places, available under CC BY-SA.

draugadrotten 11 years ago | |

This has "waze" written all over it. First you contribute, then the founders get showered in in dollars and gold, and you get nothing.

That said, I've contributed, just because I had nothing better to do with my fancy phone.

beering 11 years ago |

Article doesn't mention it, but photos are available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Important bit to know for those people who don't want a repeat of CDDB.

For one thing, work is already being done on some Mapillary integrations with OpenStreetMap as an extra data source for figuring out ground truth when mapping.

rasz_pl 11 years ago |

all those pictures, all this data, why doenst anyone use photogrammetry to generate 3D models of streets instead of clunky photo panoramas?

We should have detailed 3D maps of whole cities by now.

ris 11 years ago | |

http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2014/12/15/sfm-preview.html