I don’t know if this has already been discussed but it’s always a good thing to have updated info.
Mapillary app lets you record only in landscape mode, but I think that in portrait mode would be a lot better for the user experience.
For example on the phone we could have the screen split in half. On top the real time street view while recording, and at the bottom the map with the streets we’re covering.
Hi @evillz - This is good feedback. This is by design basically because the “interesting” things (like shops, street intersections, house numbers, etc) tend to be better captured in landscape mode. Capturing in portrait mode would capture a lot of sky and ground, but not as much of the interesting stuff on the left and right.
By the way on Android we support picture-in-picture mode, so if you’re using the Android app you can capture while using another app like navigation, etc.
It wouldn’t capture “a lot of sky and ground” if it will always be set in landscape orientation but in phone portrait mode. Don’t know if I’ve been clear enough.
No, it would not. This question has been long settled and nobody is going to reinvent anything new here. The terms say it all; landscape mode is for landscapes, which is what Mapillary collects, and portrait mode is for portraits, which Mapillary does not collect. Furthermore, imagery is primarily captured for later processing and viewing on desktops and wide screens. Nobody wants to look through asparagus shaped peepholes on workstations.
It’s not so difficult to implement a 16:9 frame in a vertical orientation. That said, never mind.
Sure, you can display landscape content on a portrait mode screen indeed but the imaging sensor on the phone is fixed. If you turn the phone to portrait mode the content from the sensor will be in portrait mode too. For what you would like to have the software would need to be able to physically control the orientation of the sensor independent of the phone’s orientation. No phone provides this feature.