Mapillary

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Mapillary is the street-level imagery platform that uses computer vision to fix the world’s maps.

Mapillary connects all images across space and time to create 3D views of places and automatically extract map data from the imagery with computer vision. This data is available to anyone to make better maps and develop our cities and traffic environments.

Capturing with the Mapillary mobile app is the easiest way to join our contributor network. Let’s get started!

CREATE YOUR OWN STREET-LEVEL VIEWS
You control when and where to capture to create the freshest street-level imagery. Mapillary’s technology combines all images into a navigable view and blurs faces and license plates for privacy.

SHARE IMAGES WITH A GLOBAL NETWORK
Mapillary contributors are people, organizations, companies, and governments in 190 countries. Millions of images are added to the dataset every week, available for exploring in the mobile app.

GENERATE MAP DATA WITH COMPUTER VISION
All imagery is processed with computer vision to detect objects in images and generate map data that’s available to everyone. To explore map data, go to mapillary.com.

App Review

Mapillary is a crowdsourced photography mapping app that uses simple smartphones, action cameras or a 360-degree camera like GoPro to capture photos that can be integrated into the street view. The app’s computer vision and machine learning automatically coordinate photos across users and across time.

If you’re worried about the privacy factor, don’t! The processor can detect faces and license plates and blurs them to respect your privacy rights. Its built on a  SaaS model at $200/month or $1,000/ month subject to the level of data usage.

Mapillary co-founder Jan Erik Solem envisions to “map the word with photos” and his future ambition is to tell stories about places through pictures so people can make wiser decisions about places they wish to explore. Yubin Kuang, Johan Gyllenspetz, and Peter Neubauer are the other three pillars beside Solem that co-founded this visionary venture. The company is backed by 7 investors with an aggregate funding of $9.5. Million in 2015 and 2016.

Key Features

1. The images can be used to create a better map for narration
2. You can see your own photo sequence and statistics in profile
3. Click pictures anywhere you want

The company has had its up and downs ever since but is continuously expanding its vision with new updates and collaborations to promote to promote street level image recognition that lays the foundation for several futuristic goals including autonomous vehicles and smart city projects.

The app is available for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and action cameras like GoPro and Garmin Virb.