[OSM-talk] Mapillary plugin for JOSM

[Jo]

> There is a GSoC project proposal this year to make a JOSM plugin for
> Mapillary. I'm not sure what the status on that is right now.
>
> The Mapillary plugin for JOSM project was accepted. Coding will start in
about 1 month. You can expect something to test by the end of June. Traffic
signs may or may not make it in by the end of August.

Peter Neubauer (from Mapillary) did mention that they are planning to
'locate' signs automatically which are in more than one photo on their side
(using interpolation or is that extrapolation?), but that may be for later
on. By locating I mean: the location of the picture showing the sign is not
the location of the sign, obviously. Except in a close up taken on foot,
maybe.

Once they do that, their API will also allow to query for locations of
those signs. We should find a way to establish a link between these
signs/poles' nodes in OSM and their API. An extra tag containing a url,
maybe?

I think it's best we point to their site, like we do in the case of
wikidata, because our node ids are not guaranteed to be stable. If they
want to refer back to OSM, they can use Overpass to query for it. (or more
efficiently, query for several at the same time).

We usually have 1 node for 1 pole, which may have more than 1 sign on them.
For poles with signs on both sides, I'm not sure how we map those. I guess
we should go and have a look in Finland, as that's about the only country
where traffic signs are being mapped in greater numbers.

Not sure how this would/could map to Mapillary's API.

Jo
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