Re: [OSM-talk] Facebook acquires crowdsourced mapping company Mapillary

[Marc Gemis]

> * The CIA World Factbook says there are about 64 000 000 km of roads in
>   the world.
> * Google Street View takes 100 photos per km.
> * A photosphere from my tablet, compressed using WebP at 50% quality
>   takes 2.7 MB.

I doubt the CIA number takes into account paths and tracks.
Mapillary allows you to upload images at different times (dates) and
compare them, so unlike Google you can have 2 photos taken at the same
spot. Unlike Google most Mapillary photos are not spheres.

m.

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[OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #517 2020-06-09-2020-06-15

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The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 517,
is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of a lot of 
things happening in the openstreetmap world:

 https://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/13289/

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