[Talk-GB] Improving the Kartaview app.

[Simon Poole]

IMHO we're flogging dead horses in this case.

Building something on top of https://gitlab.com/geovisio/geovisio would seem to have much more long term promise. 

The problems are actually less technical, but more organisational, financial and legal.

Am 14. Februar 2023 14:06:18 MEZ schrieb Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>:
>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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