[OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

[James]

Openstreetcam was transferred to grab taxi, images have stopped processing
and devs say they are working on back end but project seems dead

On Thu., Jun. 18, 2020, 7:27 p.m. Paul Johnson, <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>
>> Use openstreetcam
>>
>>
>> Start downloading all you images from Mapillary, if you did not keep a
>> copy-
>>
>>
>> But I think most important, use existing Mapillary photos to improve OSM
>> with speed
>> limits, surfaces, lit, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:37 PM Sérgio V. <svolk2 at hotmail.com
>> > <mailto:svolk2 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> 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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