[Talk-GB] Improving the Kartaview app.

[Chris Andrew]

Hi, all.

Some of you may be aware of the Kartaview [0] Android app. This has
previously been known as OpenStreetCam and OpenStreetView.

In the fairly recent past, Android users who wanted to record street-level
imagery, had two main choices; Mapillary and Kartaview. Some time ago,
Mapillary was acquired by Facebook, so many users jumped ship to Kartaview.

Whilst Kartaview does function, some users feel that it and the community
surrounding it, have been abandoned, and the Open Source code is not being
released on GitHub. To try to draw a line in the sand, and to work out what
is good and bad, I have raised an issue on GitHub.

https://github.com/kartaview/android/issues/188

My intention is to discuss what the mapping community want as a minimal
viable product (MVP), in order to add to the information sources available
to mappers. Some offline discussion has taken place regarding forking the
code and concentrating on OSM needs, but if we can clarify what we want and
need, then Kartaview can work with the community to getting things back on
track (pun intended).

It's always good to discuss matters in this list, but if the membership can
add any thoughts to the GitHub 'ticket', then that would be really helpful.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KartaView

Thanks, all.

Chris
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chris_debian
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