Nice to meet you, my name is Boris and I recently joined the Mapillary team as a product manager. (By the way if you are heading to the State of the Map conference this weekend, I’ll be there wearing a Mapillary t-shirt and would love to say hello to everyone!)
In terms of analytics, the Mapillary app collects anonymized analytics to help us understand what is working and what we should improve upon. For example, this version of the app introduced 10 new languages, with analytics we can see what percentage of Android users are using which language and which languages we still need to add to support more of the community.
We take privacy very seriously, and so in addition to anonymizing analytics data, in this app version we have also added a setting for anyone to disable analytics all together if they would like. You can find this option under Settings → Developer.
All the best, and I’m really looking forward to learning more from you and the whole Mapillary community!
When you introduce such options, the first one should ask the user if he agrees!
If someone does not enter developer options, he will not even know that something like that is there.
No information about this on Google Play or the forum in your changelog.
Hi @czecko, apology for the delay, I was out of the office.
Before installing any app, on the Google Play Store, the user can see a link to Privacy Policy and to Data Safety Labels mentioned for example on the Mapillary PlayMarket in the corresponding sections. This is the must have requirement by PlayMarket for each app.
Also, on the registration page user has links to Privacy Policy and Terms And Conditions which user agree upon while registering. The links are therefore on every page the user encounters when both signing up and downloading the app.
If you look at my sequences on my profile, you will see that there are multiple sequences of one photo. Again today after the app update. I also had a chrash of the app today when a phone call came in.
@Lowiekse there are some changes on the backend at the moment, so sometimes it displays only one image. This is a temporary workaround, will be back to normal in a few days (raw estimations). But the track must be shown fully (e.g. see this sequence).
The one you’ve sent first looks like exactly a single-image sequence, which means there’ve been one image (and if you are sure that there were multiple images, then it flags the problem on the client or, smaller chance, on the server). I will check all of them shortly.
I use two devices, sometimes still my Samsung S8, but these days mostly my Samsung A51, especially for sequences in Germany.
There, I managed to overcome the problem by turning off the battery-saving mode.
Today’s one photo sequences, were shot with the Samsung S8.
