Re:Facebook acquires Mapillary
by adsadsads on Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:35PM
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Possibilities of this acquisition are endless. For instance, combine the location data in the Facebook App with the street view to identify which businesses people are at - and charge higher ad prices to those users who were previously saw an ad for that business.
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Do they have street view equivalent data? My understanding was they have crowdsourced images/panoramas which are overlayed on a map using the geotags.
I'm not sure how that's even useful as anything other than a curiosity.
Perhaps I've missed something
Re:Facebook acquires Mapillary
by maxerickson on Sunday June 21, 2020 @02:26PM
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They have enough images that it is more than a curiosity (they can do reasonable 3d point clouds of buildings in some ares). They also have quite a lot of software for extracting information from the images.
There is also crowdsourced streetview-like continuous stream of street images, and some code to extract features.
One can use OsmAnd a bit like street view in places where Mapillary images are available.