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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 19.06.2020 um 13:47 schrieb Nick
Whitelegg:<br>
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<p>One of the key functionalities required for such a project to be
useable in countries with developed privacy regulation is the
ability to automatically pixelate relevant parts of the images
with a high degree of reliability. It took Mapillary literally
years to get that nailed down and bring it to the level of
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<p>Which is one of the reasons why, way back when Mapillary started,
I was sceptical about the sustainability because the part of the
product the detection is required don't have a real associated
revenue stream (except if you a google, or ... and can use it in
one way or the other to sell ads). <br>
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<p>In any case doing that from scratch would be a real pain. I
believe the OSC stack is now actually all OSS which would be a far
better starting point -if- sustainable funding could be built
around the whole thing.</p>
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<p>Simon</p>
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<p>PS: naturally the whole reason for OSC was a business dispute
that is now moot because Mapillary is opening up its images for
commercial use too.<br>
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<div>Those of you looking for 100% FOSS software and who are
focused on 360 degree photography of off-road routes (walking
trails and so on) might want to consider OpenTrailView
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://opentrailview.org">https://opentrailview.org</a>). Do bear in mind that it is in the
early stages of development, so don't expect Mapillary-style UX
just yet, and there is only a small amount of imagery (largely
southern England at the moment plus a few around Heidelberg for
probably obvious reasons) but it is in active development and I
do have a possible collaboration with another project (more on
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<div>OpenTrailVIew also uses underlying OpenStreetMap data to
auto-connect panoramas, using GeoJSON Path Finder
(github.com/perliedman/geojson-path-finder), though, due to
server capacity constraints, this only works at present in
Europe and Turkey (though requests for other countries welcome,
though note that if they are for large and/or highly-populated
countries countries such as the USA, China or Brazil I would
have to restrict it to a region).</div>
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<div>You can login using your OSM account.</div>
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<div>Nick</div>
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face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b>
Florian Lohoff <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:f@zz.de"><f@zz.de></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 19 June 2020 07:58<br>
<b>To:</b> Niels Elgaard Larsen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:elgaard@agol.dk"><elgaard@agol.dk></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org"><talk@openstreetmap.org></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced
mapping company Mapillary</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 01:21:59AM
+0200, Niels Elgaard Larsen wrote:<br>
> Paul Johnson:<br>
> > Great. How's this affect those of us who trust
Facebook about as far as we can throw it?<br>
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> Use openstreetcam<br>
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Openstreetcam is pretty much "disfunct" from my
perspective. There are<br>
tons of bugs people opened because of their tracks not
beeing<br>
processing. Same for me. Twitter feed dead for a year. It
looks pretty<br>
much abandoned since end of 2019 - Since early June
serious problems<br>
processing tracks and uploads.<br>
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And for the me focus on Car driveable streets makes it
useless.<br>
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Flo<br>
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Lohoff
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UTF-8 Test: The 🐈 ran after a 🐁, but the 🐁 ran
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