Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-22 Thread Philip Withnall
On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 13:16 +0100, Philip Barnes wrote: > On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 11:28 +0100, James Harrison wrote: > > > > As an aside to this conversation, where are photos most useful for > > OSM > > contributions? Just built-up areas or road junctions etc? If we > > were > > designing a

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-22 Thread Philip Barnes
I certainly prefer to take geo-referenced photos and upload them through a script rather than use an app that deletes them. I at least have a backup, and can refer back to find street or shop names that mapillary has chosen to blur. I have also discovered that mapillary has its own community,

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-22 Thread Marc Gemis
I use the script "upload_exif.py" which is part of https://github.com/openstreetcam/upload-scripts for OSC for Mapillary, I just drop the files on their website (in your account under uploads, there is an upload button). But they do have scripts as well, probably

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-22 Thread ael
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 09:26:53AM +0200, Marc Gemis wrote: > > I use a DSLR to take pictures, then georeference them, and then upload > them via a Jython script to OpenStreetCam. I use the Mapilary website > to upload them there as well. They have scripts to upload pictures as > well. I also do

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-22 Thread Simon Poole
While we would probably all love to be able to our hands on some Hollywood magic (I just have s many photos that are just a tiny bit too blurry to decipher  :-)) I suspect Marc was referring to reverting back to the original non-blurred images, removing blurs added for privacy reasons, Simon

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-22 Thread Marc Gemis
Then I would go with Wikipedia, you can more or less chose any open license you want for the pictures. Those pictures will show up next to Mapillary and OSC photo's on http://projets.pavie.info/pic4carto/index.html As to what is interesting: we map: * landuse * POIs (shops, hotels, ...) *

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-22 Thread James Harrison
On 21/09/17 22:33, Simon Poole wrote: > > > while I don't have any first hand knowledge specifically about the > UK,  but continental Europe has a largish number of companies that do > that kind of photographic asset management professionally (and which > seem to have an at least half working

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-22 Thread paul.bivand
from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> Date: 21/09/2017 22:33 (GMT+00:00) To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary? Not commenting directly on the pros and cons, but t

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-22 Thread Marc Gemis
When you attach the smartphone to the front window of your car or on the bar of a bicycle, there is not much aiming involved. The apps keep on taking pictures. The pictures that are taken do not contain blurred sections, only the ones you can access via the website. On Mapillary, you can indicate

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-22 Thread Gregory
The relevant background/motives as I understand them... Both currently aren't too limited on funds & I licensing might allow all photos/data to be taken for OSM if they did close down. Mapillary is a startup for the street-level photo viewing technology. Seemingly other things now like 3D models

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-22 Thread Marc Gemis
(Second try, the first one went only to Neil) Slightly off-topic, but answering Neil's questions: I use a DSLR to take pictures, then georeference them, and then upload them via a Jython script to OpenStreetCam. I use the Mapilary website to upload them there as well. They have scripts to upload

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-21 Thread Neil Matthews
I've tried Mapillary -- not tried OpenStreetCam yet. Comments mostly relate to the Mapillary Android app: * Mapillary App drove me nuts until I worked out how to take photos individually when walking, rather than as a continuous sequence - more car oriented? * Seems to be moderately

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-21 Thread Simon Poole
Not commenting directly on the pros and cons, but through their cooperation with Here using mapillary for this would make the material directly available to a competitor too. Now you can consider this a good thing or bad, but in any case it needs to be considered. Slightly OT; while I don't have

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenStreetCam or Mapillary?

2017-09-21 Thread Paul
Hi everyone I use Mapillary, becuase they are rather more forgiving of ancient hardware (a Galaxy S2). I'm OK with the Mapillary licence situation, but there are differing photo use licences between the two and TfWM may have views on that. Paul On Thursday, 21 September 2017 19:09:32 BST,