[hermanmerman]

As cool as it is, the reality is that geography changes: cities evolve, roads are built, closed, etc. Maintaining an up-to-date database of those views can only be done to serve another, very lucrative purpose, the one of which only Google & al. can offer. I don't think a community-based approach can work when the scale of effort is this high.

[gyllen]

Im not to sure about that. Number of pictures are growing exponentially (28 million an counting) and soon there are more active weekly users than there are google street view cars. The whole point with crowdsourcing is that streets changes.

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[hermanmerman]

It's one of those situations where I would be very happy to be wrong :)

[abienvenu]

The best world map - OpenStreetMap - and the best encyclopedia - Wikipedia - already prove you wrong :)