Facebook acquires Mapillary

Re:Facebook acquires Mapillary by tuukkah on Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:35PM (#23593605)

Mapillary is cool technology and important to OpenStreetMap in many ways: 1) Satellite imagery only gets you so far regarding object visibility and recognition. 2) GPS locations and traces are inaccurate. 3) Google's ecosystem provides a street view and to meet expectations, OSM should have one too.

Do you boycott React, which Facebook provides as Open Source as a contribution to the JavaScript ecosystem?

Do you boycott Mapillary, which Facebook provides as Open Data as a contribution to the OpenStreetMap ecosystem? Many parts of the system are Open Source too: https://github.com/mapillary

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Re:Facebook acquires Mapillary by tuukkah on Sunday June 21, 2020 @02:38PM (#23594180)

Mapillary does not have and is not selling personal data. Mapillary's main dataset is photos of (public) streets, and as openly licensed it was available for Facebook's use even before this sale.

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Re:Facebook acquires Mapillary by Tepix on Sunday June 21, 2020 @04:45PM (#23595270)

That‘s correct. They can collect more data about mapillary users now, however. Not a good thing. I don‘t think I’ll contribute to Mapillary in the future.

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Re:Facebook acquires Mapillary by toomuchtodo on Sunday June 21, 2020 @06:46PM (#23595966)

Please consider contributing to OpenStreetCam instead.

https://openstreetcam.org/map/

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Re:Facebook acquires Mapillary by Tepix on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:06AM (#23625392)

OpenStreetCam seems to be owned by "Grab Taxi Holdings Pte. Ltd." based in Singapore. Bloomberg writes: "The Company, through its subsidiaries, develops mobile application software to book a taxi and other vehicles for transportation from one location to other. GrabTaxi Holdings serves customers in Asia."

Where can i find more information about openstreetcam? Why does OpenStreetCam use the CC-BY-SA License and not the ODbL license?

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Re:Facebook acquires Mapillary by myself248 on Sunday June 21, 2020 @07:52PM (#23596282)

It's on my todo list, to start running OSC again, as soon as I start driving places again. Car's still got gas in the tank from February...

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Re:Facebook acquires Mapillary by tuukkah on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:52AM (#23598102)

I don't think the personal data of (the few) Mapillary users is of any interest to Facebook either. What they need is the personal data of the masses and for that they already have and keep growing Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, and in that they are free to take advantage of any Open Source and Open Data like anyone else.

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