[iamleppert]

I agree the quality of the images are very poor. Why go through all that effort of data collection with such inferior hardware? Most of the images are completely unusable.

[windthrown]

"Unusable" for human eyes, or unusable for computers? The images do not need to be very pretty for a computer to extract street signs and other features.

[Polylactic_acid]

I wouldn't all them completely unusable, they are just vastly inferior to googles. Personally I captured a bunch of images. If I was going somewhere already and the area was uncaptured I would just stick my phone up and capture the road. Then I would later go over the images and add things in to open street map.

[Doctor_Fegg]

I’d rather have Mapillary’s imperfect images of a trail than Google’s blank images because they haven’t driven a Street View car down there.

[HideousKojima]

A lot of them are crowdsourced, Mapillary lets anyone contribute street view images