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Revision as of 20:08, 18 June 2016

Mapillary
URL https://www.mapillary.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
Status Endangered
Archiving status Not saved yet
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)


Mapillary is a crowdsourced Google StreetView-like platform that allows users to take photos of their local area with a supplied smartphone app (or their own equipment) and will assemble the sequences in a semi-intelligent way for easy navigation and use. Photos are shared publicly under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license at time of writing).

Many OpenStreetMap users make use of Mapillary and Mapillary images as their source and documentation of their mapping process (a "source of truth") and as such it would be tremendously useful to be able to rely on Mapillary images being there "forever". Mapillary is a startup and as such may or may not be around forever, so having a safe backup would be a great relief to these mappers.

Mapillary are very supportive of openness and freedom and it may be possible to get a lot of cooperation from them and obviate the need to do any sort of scraping.

Some back-of-the-envelope calculations from IRC:

<JesseW> ris: mapillary currently claims to have 66,859,731 photos, and the downloads seem to be 2048x1536px, or about 300 KB per photo
<JesseW> Which would give a total of about 20TB