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The only coverage in the entire southeastern US is a gas station in Alabama. It's an interesting project but "openly licensed streetview" is overselling it by s

by Kye 2y ago

The only coverage in the entire southeastern US is a gas station in Alabama. It's an interesting project but "openly licensed streetview" is overselling it by several football fields in any country.

stevage 2y ago
You know this site is about startups, right? Literally every startup pitch is about what they hope to eventually create, it's not about what they actually have now.
globular-toast 2y ago
OpenStreetMap started as a blank canvas before we made it. This isn't about some dataset you can freely pillage, it's about an open platform you can use to create our streetview.
- Kye 2y ago
  That doesn't really address my comment, which was about the framing in the blog post. It's not an openly licensed Street View. It's not even an openly licensed Street Side (Bing). It isn't even close to an openly licensed Panoramio. It has the potential, but framing sets expectations and mine were not met. This is feedback for the author and anyone around the project trying to come up with a pitch. Focus on what it could be, don't try to say it is something it isn't (yet).
- maelito 2y ago
  Huge difference though : one person with a car and some energy can panoramax-map most of a city in one day. The same cannot be said of one person in one day for mapping the data on OSM. Expect Panoramax to grow way faster than OSM :)
marisen 2y ago
There are currently only 2 panoramax instances. One from IGN (french "National Geographic Institute) and one from the french OSM charter. This is obvious by looking at the coverage the world. France it where the majority of the coverage is. The coverage of most cities is actually pretty impressive for a young project. While the UI and coverage is not necessarily on par with street view, it's still pretty usable in France. Secondly Panoramax is first built for OSM contributors/mappers, not for end users. The blog reflects this in the tldr: "If you are interested in contributing"

by Kye 2y ago

The only coverage in the entire southeastern US is a gas station in Alabama. It's an interesting project but "openly licensed streetview" is overselling it by several football fields in any country.

stevage 2y ago

You know this site is about startups, right? Literally every startup pitch is about what they hope to eventually create, it's not about what they actually have now.

globular-toast 2y ago

OpenStreetMap started as a blank canvas before we made it. This isn't about some dataset you can freely pillage, it's about an open platform you can use to create our streetview.

Kye 2y ago
That doesn't really address my comment, which was about the framing in the blog post. It's not an openly licensed Street View. It's not even an openly licensed Street Side (Bing). It isn't even close to an openly licensed Panoramio. It has the potential, but framing sets expectations and mine were not met. This is feedback for the author and anyone around the project trying to come up with a pitch. Focus on what it could be, don't try to say it is something it isn't (yet).
maelito 2y ago
Huge difference though : one person with a car and some energy can panoramax-map most of a city in one day. The same cannot be said of one person in one day for mapping the data on OSM. Expect Panoramax to grow way faster than OSM :)

marisen 2y ago

There are currently only 2 panoramax instances. One from IGN (french "National Geographic Institute) and one from the french OSM charter. This is obvious by looking at the coverage the world. France it where the majority of the coverage is. The coverage of most cities is actually pretty impressive for a young project. While the UI and coverage is not necessarily on par with street view, it's still pretty usable in France. Secondly Panoramax is first built for OSM contributors/mappers, not for end users. The blog reflects this in the tldr: "If you are interested in contributing"