(survey has ended as of May 2022 – thanks for feedback!)
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Please consider sharing your feedback with us as we analyze the current state of Mapillary and look to build a future roadmap that support user needs!
And of course, you can add extra comments here in this topic, too.
Filled in the questionnaire, think it took more than 5 minutes for the extended version ; not sure why I was to log in to Facebook to continue after having declined to give my email in order to b e contacted?
I cannot see that it asks to login to Facebook at all. Anyway, it’s me viewing the responses and I am deleting everything after extracting to a document, so no login info/FB username/email info will be associated.
Let me know how long you think the second half took! I timed myself but perhaps am too fast.
better tools, better tools, better tools,
I agree with @allen
For example now: in the Mapillary desktop uploader: there is no way to simply delete a specific image (or disable it from being uploaded). Sometimes I took a little pause but forgot to turn off the camera and so there’s a cluster of images that shouldn’t be uploaded, but I have to manually go find those files. Delete them and then rescan all the images again
I thought it was just a way of occupying an intern.
@GITNE ,
Glad to see you back, wondered what caused many of your contributions to forum threads to go missing.
On the survey : there is usually a line of thinking behind a survey, some plan for the way forward, but here we had a fair number of open answer boxes, and a catch-all ‘any other points?’ box at the end.
Met als immer vriendelijke groet,
tbf, as much as I would have liked to see a foundation or something like that… it’s simply not possible with the absolute insanity of data they need to store.
While I am also not a big fan of Facebook/Meta. They do some great things for the open source community at times, including for example their excellent compression algorithm that is currently unmatched. And the React framework that many app/website developers use.
Only if I am in the intern 
Thanks! And remember, many of us are the original Mapillary team and really want to make OSM, Mapillary, and mapping in general as good as possible. Meta gives us a place to work on that with great support. Personally I was an OSM contributor and a Mapillary contributor before I ever worked for Mapillary and now Meta, so like others on the team have strong roots in the community and the spirit of the project, hoping to keep it moving the best direction.
And God knows I was one.
And God knows I was one.
Do you mean the whole service, or just the user ?
I know the feeling in both cases.
Everything can be destroyed.
While obv I don’t know. I have always suspected that Mapillary was (unfortunately) not really much of a profitable company. Hence why they had to sell to Facebook.
Storing imagery, even on cheap storage platforms like Backblaze B2 still costs a sht ton, and that’s not even including the cost every time someone accesses the data.
Having to monitize that seems tricky (to get enough money atleast).
Mapillary competitor Grab(Kartaview) has a use for it to improve their own GrabMaps product. But Mapillary’s customers would have mainly been self driving car companies probably, but I think they were just a bit too early for those to have a real customer base to work with.
Mapillary could have potentially had a revenue source where they work with gov’s. Gov’s often need streetview data, but tend to do it either internally or local companies that do it. But the problem was that Mapillary didn’t really have a government facing initiative much. Mapillary doesn’t employ people to capture, they just have the platform. Someone else must have been commisioned to do it.
And the government’s that did learn about Mapillary, just did it themselves: Oostrozebeke als eerste volledige gemeente 360° op Mapillary – WVI GISCO
West-Flanders region in Belgium bought a gopro 360, captured footage themselves and uploaded it to Mapillary. Great for open usage of course, but from Mapillary’s perspective, they wouldn’t have many any money.