[Talk-GB] Improving the Kartaview app.

[Philip Barnes]

Hi Chris
I regularly contribute to mapillary and have once or twice managed to contribute to kartaview.

I am not a fan of apps for a number of reasons, the principal one is having to stick my phone to the windscreen. My phone in its mount is below the windscreen.

I have not tried the Kartaview app but in the early days of contributing to mapillary via the app found.
1. It stopped after an hour.
2. It would not work in the background, preventing the use of navigation apps. Hence I was unable to record trips requiring navigation. I was unable to record much of our road trips to France.

I now use a dashcam, from which I then process the videos into a series of geo-tagged images, ensuring that I only upload those with a minimum of 5m movement.

My intention has always been to upload my images to both mapillary and kartaview. I also keep the videos and images ready for the next thing that comes along.

Uploading these images to mapillary is easy, they provide a simple application that I just need to point at the folder containing the images.

Unfortunately kartaview make it much harder.
1. Anything other than phoneapps is missing from the homepage, or it is
very well hidden.
2. Scripts to exist on github
 ( https://github.com/kartaview/upload-scripts ), but I have found them
difficult to use.  They need to be much simpler, such as



Phil (trigpoint)

On 14 February 2023 10:47:35 GMT, Chris Andrew <cjhandrew at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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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