It seems pretty clear that street-level imaging on OSM is pretty lacking, unless you only want to see highways.

I’m looking to start mapping street-level images for my city, but it seems like there are three players (integrated in the OSM editor), and I don’t know which to commit to:

-KartaView

-Mapillary

-mapilio

My gut is to go with the one with the largest user base (Mapillary), but they are owned by Facebook and who knows what direction they will take in the future or what our images will actually be used for in the long-run.

Karta seems dead.

And Mapilio seems like a knock-off of Mapillary, but with a much smaller user base and an uncertain future.

Are any worth investing hundreds of hours of time to?

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOP
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    1 year ago

    Looks interesting, but it’s not baked into OSM, so the usefulness for mappers would be severely limited.

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      1 year ago

      *yet
      it’s being developed by OSM FR. So it’s DEF going to get implemented into osm tools down the lines. Geovisio is pretty barebones atm.
      But the idea is similar to lemmy and mastodon and other federated services. Instead of having one giant server like mapillary, each community can have it’s own server and in the future they could federate together.

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        1 year ago

        it’s being developed by OSM FR

        We’ll, that certainly changes things! Looks like I’ll be keeping an eye on the project after all 😀