Hi Thibault, >>>>all the mapillary data is from now free to use, even for commercial use : "Moving forward, that will continue to be true, except that starting today, it will also be free to use for commercial users as well"
For how long ? and free in exchange for what --- the ability to place cookies, track and target users/clients with advertisements & political messages ? Best regards, Stuart On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 10:24, Thibault Molleman <[email protected]> wrote: > While I'm not a fan of Facebook either. > If you play devils advocate. they have done some good stuff. and already > notice some good changes to mapilary as well: > - they have done some amazing work with 'map with AI' > - all the mapillary data is from now free to use, even for commercial use > : "Moving forward, that will continue to be true, except that starting > today, it will also be free to use for commercial users as well" > - and "This next chapter of Mapillary’s journey is an opportunity to build > upon our OpenStreetMap efforts to a degree that was not possible earlier > on. Previous OpenStreetMap development had to be balanced against > development work for other mapping use cases. As part of Facebook, we can > focus on OpenStreetMap while supporting Facebook’s open mapping efforts." > Source: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jesolem/diary/393358 > > So this (in theorie) could be a good thing > > On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 07:28, European Water Project < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hopefully a significant level of data openness will continue to be part >> of Mapillary's business model. >> >> >> >> yes, we can just hope for it. Not more. >> >> Just in case someone missed this, Mapillary has been acquired by Facebook >> yesterday... >> >> >> https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/18/business/18reuters-facebook-deals-mapillary.html >> >> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 22:08 Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 12:14, Janko Mihelić <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > Photos of buildings are even more notable then photos of bicycle >>> parking, >>> > so I'll try and take photos of a few buildings and see how that goes. >>> > >>> > I probably won't be creating a category for each building, so then I >>> will be >>> > linking to those pictures with the image=* tag, right? >>> >>> You might like this tool: >>> >>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ >>> >>> which will tell you whether the buildings you photograph have an entry >>> in Wikidata, and whether or not that entry has an image; if not, once >>> you upload your image to Commons, you can also link to it from >>> Wikidata. >>> >>> (Although it can be used as I describe above, its primary purpose is >>> to find, for a given location, nearby Wikidata items that lack >>> images.) >>> >>> -- >>> Andy Mabbett >>> @pigsonthewing >>> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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