more info:

* Openstreetmap Wiki:Mapillary

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapillary

* "How to Street-View a bike path for a penny"

http://www.bodenseepeter.de/2014/07/01/how-to-street-view-a-...

* SOTM EU2014:Yubin Kuang: Mapillary - the missing view of the planet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvQ1TAIN8rE

My biggest question as I browsed this site was: why is this useful. The first 3-4 pages I browsed, and the video I watched, didn't answer this question.

Its useful because you can

(1) get a hold of the raw data and then do cool stuff on top of it.

(2) you can contribute your own local area in a way that you want -- doesnt just have to be streets, can also be trails, riverside views etc.

(3) This is good if you're irked that Google has all the interesting street imagery that they hoard for themselves (mostly).

(4) You'd be helping openstreetmap volunteers look at your imagery when then edit the local map thus helping create our only shot at an open, fully flexible map of the world.

There's probably more, but this should be a good start. Yay, mapillary!

Hey! I saw someone in a coffee shop in LA working on this. I regretted not asking about it. This looks really cool.

Hey, you should have. That was probably me, we are based in Sweden but I work out here from LA.

Is there any means to discover why a search term sends you to a specific place? search for 'zazu' and you end up in some field in Spain south of the French border. 'krom' and you end up in Saudi Arabia near the red-sea. That is, there's no apparent reverse linking ..?

My complaint from about a year ago was that they only supported contributing if you had an iPhone¹. Have they fixed this yet?

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948368

They have Android and iOS apps. They also have an API [0] and several blog posts about how to use it to add photos from other types of devices [1].

[0] http://www.mapillary.com/developer.html [1] http://blog.mapillary.com/technology/2014/07/21/upload-scrip...

Confirmed re: Android App. Just grabbed this today. Got lots of work to do since backwoods Pennsylvania seems to have no photos (go figure). Lots of work to do!

Interesting (?) piece of trivia: one of the founders of Mapillary is Peter Neubauer, who was one of three creators of Neo4j.

how does one create his own 'crowdsource' labor force to solve specific domains of problems? Where do you find workers that will be readily available to work on problems?

They're leveraging the existing OpenStreetMap crowd by allowing the images to be used by them for mapping.