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A request to action camera users

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  • 29-04-2024 11:36am
    #1
    freiteg
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭


    I was hoping to appeal to those of you with action cameras (garmin virb, gopro, insta360, an so on) to consider helping improve OpenStreetMap by uploading your recorded cycles.

    I am not sure if you have considered it much but OpenStreetMap is used a lot in various tools used for us from our bike computers to route planning (strava, komoot and much more). OpenStreetMap us updated by anyone who wants to which can mean depending on the area if can be really well mapped or in other cases very lacking.

    If your cycles are being recorded they can be uploaded to one of a few website which can take the recordings and overlay them on OpenStreetMap and this can then be used by anyone in Ireland or wider a field to update OpenStreetMap without the need to physically visit a location.

    Updates can be beneficial to us for example we can record

    • surface type and quality of roads or trails, which is great for route planning on komoot or strava
    • bike paths and if they are segregated
    • locations of cafes
    • public water sources
    • repair stands
    • bicycle parking (capacity, stand time, covered or not)
    • CCTV in relation to bike parking

    If you'd be interested in sharing recorded rides or just see how it works the three main places at the moment that they can be uploaded to are

    • Mapillary https://www.mapillary.com/
    • Kartaview https://kartaview.org/
    • Panoramax https://panoramax.fr/

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    #2
    cletus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,888 ✭✭✭cletus


    Interesting. I don't record my rides, but I'm interested in the results.

    Does this mean that we should be able to get street views of paths and trails that the Google maps vans don't capture?



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    freiteg
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭freiteg


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122076609#Comment_122076609

    Yes so in and of there selves, mapillary, kartaview and Panoramax are all Street View alternatives with varying levels of more permissive licensing. As they are user submitted you might find that a lot of areas are not covered (yet), unlike google paying people to drive around.

    As a result of the licensing they are compatible with the openstreetmap licensing and any information you can see in those images can be added to the OSM map. Conversley you can not use Street View for updating openstreetmap as google would see this as theft of copyrighted data.



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