I like the concept of Mapillary. But I'm confused as to the business concept. Is this open source? Who owns the data? Why would I dedicate my time and money helping this project? How are they planning to make money? I understand the need to digitize the world, in fact, I see it as critical. But Google is already doing this (and gladly capturing my data streams to do it), where is the advantage of this project?
facebook bought mapillary a while back so i dont know what their business model is now. before, one of the use cases was maybe local councils who might have to manually keep track of road signs, benches, bins etc which could take months/years but with something this you could drive every road in a city in a week and have objects show up on the map any photos taken were owned by whoever took them, last time i checked anyway. i think for most contributors it was that mapillary integrated with openStreetMap so it made it much easier to capture footage and then view that in the openStreetMap editor later on. i dont contribute anymore myself. i was fairly content with mapillary (possibly) making money from the images i captured in return for the openStreetMap integration, but i dont like or trust facebook as a company and i dont think google is much better either. tbh we need more projects like this, and ones that are used for everyone's benefit and not just for some companies or shareholders profit
This is one the few alternatives to Google Street View, that has imagery at the street level
I like the concept of Mapillary. But I'm confused as to the business concept. Is this open source? Who owns the data? Why would I dedicate my time and money helping this project? How are they planning to make money? I understand the need to digitize the world, in fact, I see it as critical. But Google is already doing this (and gladly capturing my data streams to do it), where is the advantage of this project?
facebook bought mapillary a while back so i dont know what their business model is now. before, one of the use cases was maybe local councils who might have to manually keep track of road signs, benches, bins etc which could take months/years but with something this you could drive every road in a city in a week and have objects show up on the map
any photos taken were owned by whoever took them, last time i checked anyway.
i think for most contributors it was that mapillary integrated with openStreetMap so it made it much easier to capture footage and then view that in the openStreetMap editor later on.
i dont contribute anymore myself. i was fairly content with mapillary (possibly) making money from the images i captured in return for the openStreetMap integration, but i dont like or trust facebook as a company and i dont think google is much better either.
tbh we need more projects like this, and ones that are used for everyone's benefit and not just for some companies or shareholders profit
Great work!
can you use a dashcam to collect images?
Wondering if Mapillary will get acquired by some tech giant
Seriously hope not!
Too Late. It was bought this Month by Facebook :(
I wish mobile app software engineers made robust apps