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Funny, me and a friend started talking about a crowd sourced alternative to Google Street View just last week. My first thought when discussing this was: how wi

Funny, me and a friend started talking about a crowd sourced alternative to Google Street View just last week. My first thought when discussing this was: how will you normalize data? How will you provide a 360 view? I guess the answer is: you probably wont. Didn't know of this initiative, so I was happy to see people working on it. Here's the first image that popped up for me: https://imgur.com/a/ScgOd https://imgur.com/a/ScgOd Lo and behold, it's upside down. :)

maxerickson 10y ago
They fixed that bug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12331769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12331769 Mapillary has been able to recover 3d structure in areas with high photo density: http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2015/11/10/pointclouds.html http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2015/11/10/pointclouds.html That's still a long way from merging the photos into a coherent view, but you quickly start to be able to 'look around'.