It seems pretty clear that street-level imaging on OSM is pretty lacking, unless you only want to see highways.

I’m looking to start mapping street-level images for my city, but it seems like there are three players (integrated in the OSM editor), and I don’t know which to commit to:

-KartaView

-Mapillary

-mapilio

My gut is to go with the one with the largest user base (Mapillary), but they are owned by Facebook and who knows what direction they will take in the future or what our images will actually be used for in the long-run.

Karta seems dead.

And Mapilio seems like a knock-off of Mapillary, but with a much smaller user base and an uncertain future.

Are any worth investing hundreds of hours of time to?

  • @CowsLookLikeMapsEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    I like Mapilio. However the main drawback for me is the OSM ID editor integration isn’t as good as Mapillary and its AI detection of bicycle parking isn’t as good either. But it’s early on and they’re still working very well overall so it’s worth it for me.

    • Thibaultmol
      3•1 year ago
      • in Mapilio’s defense, they only launched their integration this month. It might take some time to get up to the same level
      • Mapillary had a whole system for verifying AI detections but that went away when Meta took over and basically forced Mapillary to revamp their entire server infra.
        The tool still exists but doesn’t work because it would have to be modified to use the new api.
        (I’m in contact with Mapillary’s people with a potential solution)