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?

  • @zbychEnglish
    2•9 months ago

    I used to upload photos to Mapillary, but after takeover by FB I deleten my account.Now I still haven’t found reliable option to upload street images.

    • Thibaultmol
      2•9 months ago

      i mean I get… but… the images are still CC-BY-SA, if anything: since the met takeover you’re allowed to use the images commercially without any license. That wasn’t the case before.
      i’m not pro meta. But I don’t think they’re doing anything evil in this department…