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The article focuses a lot on street images.

It's worth noting the existence of the open source street image platform https://panoramax.fr.

https://gitlab.com/panoramax

Disclaimer : I'm building a local open source "clone" of Google Maps, on the Web, for France. https://cartes.app. Code : https://github.com/cartesapp/cartes



I contribute street images to Mapillary and Google Street View. Mostly in nature /trails where the cars don't reach, with my goal of making it easier for people to plan their journeys and get outside. I've never quite understood how to contribute to Panoramax, though?

No shared instance for uploading images for Norway as I see it, and feels weird having to set up my own federated instance if all I want to do is offload all my pictures for others to use? I know the one on the page you linked says "OSM World wide", but reading at the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Panoramax it says not to use it for things outside france, and I also can't understand how I contribute to MapComplete.

(here's the tooling I've built for myself btw https://github.com/Matsemann/matsemanns-streetview-tools/ )


I believe the OSM instance is usable outside of France. Checkout the map here : https://panoramax.openstreetmap.fr/#background=streets&focus...


Yeah, but given the quote from the OSM wiki I'm a bit apprehensive about spending time uploading a couple of terrabytes / hundreds of thousands of 360 images. Either because it's not worth it (no one here will ever see them, or they may be removed), or because it would be detrimental to the .fr project for me to waste their resources.


Thanks. I've sent a private message to one of the project owners.


I have a front-facing dashcam in my car. It records videos when I drive. Would this be useful for others? The videos are not stamped with GPS coordinates but I don't go off road or anything so you can usually tell the name of the street or highway I am on just by the street signs. Are these dash cam videos worth saving?

Edit: this is in the US


cartes.app looks sharp!


Thanks ! Lots of polish and features left for a proper v1, on the scope of France. Then we'll think about translation and i18n.




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