Mapillary
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| Initial release | April 2014 |
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| Operating system | Android, Windows Phone, iOS, BlackBerry OS |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Web mapping |
| License | CC BY-SA |
| Website | www |
Mapillary is a service for sharing geotagged photos developed by Mapillary AB, located in Malmö, Sweden. Its creators want to represent the whole world (not only streets) with photos using Crowdsourcing.
Background
The project started in September 2013,[1] with an iPhone app released in November 2013, followed by an Android app released in January 2014.[2]
Mapillary received $1.5 million in seed capital funding from a group of investors, led by Sequoia Capital in January 2015[3]
Features
Mapillary offers different capturing modes including walking, riding (either a bike or car), or panorama. On 10 September 2014, Mapillary announced that they now support panoramas and photo spheres.[4]
As of May 2014, Mapillary had around 0.5 million photos[5] and by December 2014, it had over 5.5 million.[6] As of March 2015 it had 10 million photos,[7] and by June 11, 2015 Mapillary had over 20 million photos, and by August 9 over 30 million.[8] There is a live counter on the homepage of their website.
License
The images on Mapillary can by used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA).[9] There is special permission to derive data from the photos for contributing to OpenStreetMap[10] and Wikimedia Commons.[9] The GPX tracks can be used without restriction, and derived data can be used provided it is ODbL.[11]
The license was changed on 29 April 2014 from CC-BY-NC to CC-BY-SA.[12]
Mapillary eventually plans to generate revenue by licensing the data its users generate to companies.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Kristina // Øresund Startups (December 11, 2013). "Jan Erik Solem Launches Mapilary - Putting Images on the Map". Arctic Capital. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ^ a b Metz, Rachel (February 28, 2014). "Putting Crowdsourcing on the Map". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- ^ Mike Butcher (January 15, 2015). "Sequoia Invests In Mapillary To Crowd-Map The World Faster Than Street View". TechCrunch. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ^ Solem, Jan Erik (10 September 2014). "Now Supporting Panoramas and Photo Spheres". http://blog.mapillary.com/. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
{{cite web}}: External link in|website= - ^ Katie Collins (9 May 2014). "Mapillary is the crowdsourced answer to Street View". Wired.
- ^ https://twitter.com/mapillary/status/535915175418036224
- ^ "10M Geotagged Connected Photos". blog.mapillary.com. Retrieved 2015-07-21.
- ^ http://www.mapillary.com/map
- ^ a b Sweden, Mapillary AB,. "Mapillary | Legal". www.mapillary.com. Retrieved 2015-07-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Mapillary, OSM".
- ^ "Right to Derive Data from Mapillary images".
- ^ "License Update: Now Creative Commons Share Alike". blog.mapillary.com. Retrieved 2015-07-21.
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