[Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

Philip Withnall philip at tecnocode.co.uk
Fri Sep 22 12:36:24 UTC 2017


On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 13:16 +0100, Philip Barnes wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 11:28 +0100, James Harrison wrote:
> > 
> > As an aside to this conversation, where are photos most useful for
> > OSM
> > contributions? Just built-up areas or road junctions etc? If we
> > were
> > designing a selector given a bunch of different capture locations,
> > what
> > would produce the most useful images for map editing?
> > 
> 
> Thats a big question, but my view is certainly not just built up
> areas.
> 
> In my view rural junctions with rights of way would be very useful,
> as
> would changes of speed limit, farm/housenames.

I’d say town centres are quite useful to photograph regularly, if you
can get a decent view of the shop fronts, since they change often and
are probably quite useful to a lot of OSM users.

(Another) Philip
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