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by matsemann 1049 days ago
My job uses OSM for route planning, and contributes back changes, road closures etc. as that directly benefit us when planning the next day. It's a great system where everyone benefits.

On the private, I've lately been biking/hiking lots of trails with a 360 camera, and uploaded to Mapillary as CC-BY-SA (and google street view). To make a kind of street view, but also to use the data to improve trail/mtb/biking routes in OSM. I hate planning a route and ending up having to carry my gravel bike. Or someone taking their stroller for a leisure hike on a gravel road in the woods suddenly finds out some part of it is unwalkable. Or the opposite, taking the mtb for a ride and not getting any fun. It's quite fun, a good excuse to try new roads every time I'm out just to map it.
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unnervingduck 1049 days ago
I've been thinking of recording imagery too with an action camera, using a phone for that purpose hasn't been too good in my experience because it's shaky, especially on forest trails.

Also what do you think of KartaView? I'm not sure whether to trust the Meta owned Mapillary, even though the current data has an open license.

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matsemann 1049 days ago
I use a gopro max, a 360 camera. Not the best quality since it's 5.6k pixels shared in all directions, but quite nice. A 360 video gives "true" streetview navigation compared to uploading pictures.

My problem with KartaView is that there is no new images in my city since ~2019, and very little is covered. So no one here uses it. While someone needs to start, I guess, it wont be me. The municipality where I live has however mapped >800 km of city streets themselves in Mapillary, so it's a good source to expand on and where I can fill in the gaps with cycling related stuff.

https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/BYM_OlaJuulHolm?lat=59.92...

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unnervingduck 1049 days ago
Thanks, that makes sense. In my town the usage of either one is so marginal I don't think it matters which I use. And even if I decided to visit the nearest city and start from scratch with KartaView, more recent data wouldn't obviously hurt. And I've got time hah.

As I'm just a beginner I don't think a 360 camera is worth it just yet, they are quite expensive compared to regular ones. And I can imagine putting it on my helmet would get some attention from bypassers, unlike a normal camera mounted on the handlebar.

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matsemann 1049 days ago
Yeah, lots of attention, hehe. Especially since when I'm filming for street view usage, I in addition have it on a pole sticking a bit up from the helmet, such that the helmet+myself covers as little of the nadir as possible. So quite some looks!
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OfSanguineFire 1049 days ago
Duscussions I have seen recently suggested that KartaView has been abandoned by its corporate owner.

KartaView itself was never free of Meta. One reason it was never accepted on F-Droid is that it required Facebook libraries to build.

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