This article is about 5 years old. I wonder if the project went anywhere?
I hadn't heard of Mapillary before, but it seems like a great idea to add street-view-like functionality to OSM. I'm wondering if the data is easily viewable somehow on the OSM interface? After having a quick look now, I couldn't seem to find it.
Mapillary was acquired by Meta around this time. I am not sure if they changed focus then but seems likely. I was more active mapping for OSM before this and Mapillary often published blog posts on how their services could be utilized by OSM. But I have not paid much attention last couple of years.
Wait, this code uploads data to a server somewhere? To what end? I would not have expected capture to come with mandatory redistribution, nor would I trust any third party with my location, let alone the output of my car's camera feeds. And I definitely wouldn't trust meta with, well, anything, let alone my own personal identifying information.
I'm not sure what you expected, Mapillary is built to make pictures and upload them with the most information possible. Street View but for everyone, and there's no need to have a 360° camera.
I actually think I may have misunderstood, and this doesn't upload to mapillary by default.
...but that said, what is the kind of person to upload specific times and places where they were to a private corporation? What would motivate a person to do such a thing? Can you get paid for it?
It is done for cartographers in OpenStreetMap to map where they have been (or where others have been).
I use it to add metadata to my local area, things like business names, postboxes, benches, etc.
Mapillary is not a private cloud for your own personal Google Street Map. It's a public Google Street Map with appropriate licencing (open) for mappers to add data to OSM, using Google Street Map would be in violation of its licence.
Not to get too snarky, but the number of people that knowingly or not have GMaps location history enabled has to be in huge millions. I talked to a few of them personally and they saw it as some little neat feature to eg. quickly list the cities they've been to in the last year.
When you edit a map in the Openstreetmap website (the "id" editor) you can see each data point by expanding the Map Data menu (line and polygon icon, just below the Background Setting icon), expanding the Photo Overlays section and checking the various Mapillary features. You can both view the images themselves (and filter for 360 or regular pictures), and also look at the traffic sign and map features (manholes, benches, poles, shop signs, etc..) that Mapillary has automatically detected.
It seems easy to access through JOSM, which is the primary editor for heavy mappers who are doing almost all of the work. I haven't tried doing that, there aren't enough mapping enthusiasts around for Mapillary to be of any use.
I hadn't heard of Mapillary before, but it seems like a great idea to add street-view-like functionality to OSM. I'm wondering if the data is easily viewable somehow on the OSM interface? After having a quick look now, I couldn't seem to find it.