Mapillary - Crowd Sourced Street View Images

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Sean McGinnis

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Apr 1, 2014, 9:12:28 AM4/1/14
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Morning All,
I came across Mapillary the other day and thought it was a good compliment to balloon/kite mapping. It allows users to capture their own street view images on an Android or iOS device to be uploaded and stitched into an open street view image repository.

This is a quick test I did outside my office the other day: http://bit.ly/1heIIUA

Another nice feature, after the image has been uploaded you can update the location if you were getting bad GPS signal on your device.

Their is an API, so the images can be incorporated into other applications.

Liz Barry

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Apr 1, 2014, 9:34:29 AM4/1/14
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this is pretty cool! a make your own street view. 



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Christiaan Adams

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Apr 1, 2014, 12:08:39 PM4/1/14
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Very cool, I like the interface... nice and simple, so works well even for non-panorama photos.  

In case you're interested, you can also contribute your photos to Google Street View itself, where they will be seen by the many users of Google Maps. 

Here is the "Views" page where you can see panos contributed by others (or manage your own contributions):

Help pages on taking and contributing panos are here:

You can also connect your panos together so that they can be navigated like Street View panos:

As detailed in those links, it's easiest to create a photosphere panorama with your Android phone, and submit it directly to maps from there.  You can also use a digital camera, and manually stitch the images into a panorama before submitting. Or there are some new devices becoming available that make it very simple to capture 360 degree photos, such as the Ricoh Theta (super simple to use, but not very high-res).  

Have fun with it! -Christiaan
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