[Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

Marc Gemis marc.gemis at gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 09:10:50 UTC 2017


When you attach the smartphone to the front window of your car or on
the bar of a bicycle, there is not much aiming involved. The apps keep
on taking pictures. The pictures that are taken do not contain blurred
sections, only the ones you can access via the website. On Mapillary,
you can indicate which areas you want to be blurred besides the
automatically detected areas, and deblur pieces that should not be
blurred. As they keep the original photo without any blurs somewhere
on their servers, that should not be a problem. No TV magic involved.

Since I prefer full access to the original pictures that I have taken,
I prefer the digital reflex approach. But for destination signs on
motorways and other main roads, OSC/Mapillary might be the only way to
catch those images.

m.

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:50 AM, David Woolley
<forums at david-woolley.me.uk> wrote:
> On 22/09/17 08:26, Marc Gemis wrote:
>
>> OSC's unblurring
>> functionality still does not work. So some signs might be unreadable
>> due to that
>
>
> De-convolution is only a miracle technology in TV forensics fiction. Whilst,
> with a carefully chosen scene and a very circular lens aperture it can make
> big improvements, you should still aim to take photographs that don't need
> it.
>
>
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