On: 100M Photos – Geotagged, Connected, and Available for All

[krasin]

Where do they state this? A link is welcome.

[detaro → krasin]

https://www.mapillary.com/legal.html

Also in their API docs: https://a.mapillary.com/#images-and-sequences

As far as I know, that license does not include the image metadata, which really is one of the more interesting parts of an image collection like this.

[toomuchtodo → detaro]

The image metadata is not covered, which prompted the creation of OpenStreetView [+].

[+] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetView

[maxerickson → toomuchtodo]

I tend to speculate that OpenStreetView was started by people inside Telenav because they thought it would be cool to work on it. They built a feature to talk to OBD II dongles, which is pretty far afield from image metadata.

We should also probably start calling it the street photo thing that hasn't been renamed yet.

[toomuchtodo → maxerickson]

> I tend to speculate that OpenStreetView was started by people inside Telenav because they thought it would be cool to work on it.

A rising tide lifts all boats. I'd just like to see the entire geospatial stack all the way up to street view open sourced. I'd hate for the world to start to rely on Mapillary, their funding run out, and then ArchiveTeam has to go grab all 300TB of data and put it in cold storage until a new interface is built. Yuck. Let's just do it right from the start.

[detaro → toomuchtodo]

Now you mention it, the OpenStreetView discussion on HN is where I remembered that detail from.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12330311

[pbhjpbhj → detaro]

As image metadata is factual surely it's not covered by copyright.

[midgetjones → krasin]

Go to a photo and find the ellipsis menu. It isn't incredibly obvious, I'll admit.