[OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Thu Jun 18 23:24:57 UTC 2020


Doesn't OpenStreetCam have similar corporate ownership problems, with the
additional problematic aspect that the toolchain's been neglected since
Telenav cut 'em loose?

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 6:23 PM Niels Elgaard Larsen <elgaard at agol.dk>
wrote:

> Paul Johnson:
> > Great.  How's this affect those of us who trust Facebook about as far as
> we can throw it?
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> Use openstreetcam
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> Start downloading all you images from Mapillary, if you did not keep a
> copy-
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> But I think most important, use existing Mapillary photos to improve OSM
> with speed
> limits, surfaces, lit, etc.
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> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:37 PM Sérgio V. <svolk2 at hotmail.com
> > <mailto:svolk2 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
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> https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-deals-mapillary/facebook-acquires-crowdsourced-mapping-company-mapillary-idUKKBN23P3N6
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> >     Sérgio - http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/smaprs
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