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Mapillary in the OpenStreetMap iD Editor
- rmc 12y agoFor those who don't know, Mapillary is attempting to be an open source, crowd sourced equivalent of Google Street View. You can download the app on your phone and do some street view today.
- showsover 12y agoJust installed it on my WP, and I'm really glad there's an app available (most neglected platform). Congrats to Mapillary for becoming the default street view. I hope to help in my neck of the woods!
- petern 12y agoThe WM app is contributed by Tommy Ovesen one of the Norway Mapillary members, see http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2014/05/15/windows-phone-released.html http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2014/05/15/windows-phone-re...
- davidw 12y agoStreet view is a ton of data and uses custom hardware, and seems to be done in a fairly systematic way in order to cover most of an area. So they've got their work cut out for them. That said, at one point I wasn't that optimistic about open street map either, and all of a sudden it seems like they now have very good data - at least where I live.
- Doctor_Fegg 12y agoMisleading title. openstreetmap.org doesn't have a Street View function. Mapillary has been integrated into the default _editor_ (the wonderful iD) as an aid to mapping. It's not exposed to non-editing users.
- petern 12y agoSorry, that is totally right. It's about the iD editor, nothing else.
- a3_nm 12y agoNote that Mapillary has some downsides. In addition to the CC-BY-SA license, the Mapillary T&C (http://www.mapillary.com/terms.html http://www.mapillary.com/terms.html 1.3) give them the specific right to reuse user content as they wish, without attribution. (This is different from OSM, which uses the ODbL.) Also, even though the license is CC-BY-SA, section 1.2 of the T&C prohibits commercial use. Further, I see no data dumps provided (or statement of intent to provide some eventually), unlike OSM, StackExchange, Wikimedia projects. Last, the smartphone app seems to be closed-source. (If it is open-source, I couldn't find the source.) It is great news that people are trying to develop a Google Street View replacement, but OSM's will to let people use this data to improve OSM (like they do for Bing satellite imagery) doesn't imply that this project is as free as OSM.
- nodata 12y agoEither it's CC-BY-SA or it isn't. Maybe someone from Mapillary could comment.
- a3_nm 12y agoMaybe the relevant section is left over from the previous license, which was CC-BY-NC (http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2014/03/17/mapillary-goes-creative-commons.html http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2014/03/17/mapillary-goes-c...). Alternatively, IANAL but I imagine that the individual photos could still be CC-BY-SA (if, e.g., someone else redistributes them) but that the service itself cannot be used for commercial purposes. As bulk exports are prohibited (2.1) and dumps are not provided, however, this would mean that the data is CC-BY-SA in theory but hard to reuse commercially except for individual pictures.
- Doctor_Fegg 12y agoThe crucial information is the lat/long of each photo. If that's not licensed openly (and, as metadata, CC0 or ODbL would be better suited than CC-BY-SA) then it's just a nice collection of photos.
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- DonHopkins 12y agoNice pie menus!
- roncohen 12y agoWell done Jan Erik and team!