The document discusses Mapillary, an open platform that allows anyone to contribute geotagged photos to create a collaborative street-level map. It notes that over 3.7 million photos have been collected, mapping over 100,000 km. It describes how Mapillary can be used publicly, privately within organizations, or integrated into other applications. Potential use cases for cities are also outlined, such as monitoring areas over time or providing street-level views on websites.
20. Alternatives
three options for using Mapillary
Public
Photos are publicly visible and part of the public Mapillary set
Anyone can contribute, edit, and comment
Mapillary viewer can be integrated on any website
Private
Photos belong to private Mapillary projects
An organization can have many projects and access is controlled per user
Only users in the project can contribute and view
Integrated
Integrate public/private Mapillary data into GIS applications
Full navigation, all data exposed through APIs (GeoJSON)
Mapillary data can be used with any city data inside regular workflows
22. Private
organizations have projects, projects have users
• Create projects, control access for each project on a per-user basis.
• Fully hosted service with a monthly fee (Small/Medium/Large plans).
Select project in the app Select project in the browser Custom project page
23. Cases for cities
Use Mapillary
• complement to other street view sources in GIS tools. Full integration as
layer in e.g. ArcGIS etc.
• monitor areas over time, for example parks, roads, construction areas etc.
• sharing beautiful views of your city, embedded on any website.
• visual communication, sharing information internally and to inhabitants.
• give directions to locations in your city and for showing routes, or trails.