[Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

[Simon Poole]

Not commenting directly on the pros and cons, but through their
cooperation with Here using mapillary for this would make the material
directly available to a competitor too. Now you can consider this a good
thing or bad, but in any case it needs to be considered.

Slightly OT;

while I don't have any first hand knowledge specifically about the UK, 
but continental Europe has a largish number of companies that do that
kind of photographic asset management professionally (and which seem to
have an at least half working business model because they still exist).
The results of the surveys they do tend to not be open to the general
public for privacy reasons and so on, but getting our hands on that kind
of material would be great. Naturally these kind of things tend to be
"slightly" more expensive than using a smart phone camera.

Simon


Am 21.09.2017 um 20:09 schrieb Brian Prangle:
> Hi everyone
>
> I'm in discussions with Transport for West Midlands to use their
> inspection teams'  time on the street to assist us by taking photos
> with smartphones, which will also help them with their asset
> management and not have to rely on outdated data from Google StreetView.
>
> Which one of the above is better for us? Or just plain better?
>
> Regards
>
> Brian
>
>
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