[unicornporn]

Funny, me and a friend started talking about a crowd sourced alternative to Google Street View just last week. My first thought when discussing this was: how will you normalize data? How will you provide a 360 view? I guess the answer is: you probably wont.

Didn't know of this initiative, so I was happy to see people working on it. Here's the first image that popped up for me:

https://imgur.com/a/ScgOd

Lo and behold, it's upside down. :)

[maxerickson]

They fixed that bug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12331769

Mapillary has been able to recover 3d structure in areas with high photo density:

http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2015/11/10/pointclouds.html

That's still a long way from merging the photos into a coherent view, but you quickly start to be able to 'look around'.