I decided to make separate topic of this.
Since some time I am getting weird gaps in my sequences after upload. Just as if some pictures were missing. It is usually 200-300 pics. It is extremely annoying because I see no reason for them being missing, and when I try to upload them again they dont show up either. Finally yesterday I tried to use web uploader, and got message that I try to upload duplicates. So the pictures are there somewhere, just they dont appear on the web!
Can someone from mapillary check it? I include here a link to three shots that web uploader thinks are duplicates, but try to find them on the map!
It seems same thing happening with mobile app, but I cannot try to upload pics again because they are deleted automatically, so no way to feel the gaps :-/
I’ve seen similar issues from a few users and we are looking to figure it out. Send any details you have on your username, date of upload, and sequence keys to support@mapillary.com and I can get this logged in as more evidence of the issue!
Something new on the problem. You can find the pictures uploaded in ID editor. So they exist! and ID editor is showing them. Just website and JOSM are not.
But characteristic thing: they appear as separate dots not conected by the sequence line.
I think it has connection with the procedure to filter out corrupt gps frames that sometimes happen, so there are no longer long lines through all map to antarctica or greenland So maybe the algorithm is throwing out all parts of sequences with only one picture corrupt?
When I was processing my pictures I’ve got communicates about to large distance or speed or something.
But I need to observe it little bit more…
happened again. It always starts with pictures in new gopro directory.
sequence: q1jvgbjmfqh3nlv03sss9l
images:
TURwcMbQmaSogsQrut4x60
AJZqdcUuYZQ0q1cxtQR8MA
3hre8yOHb9AOl7rR99vqgO
…and more…are in one sequence but not connected to each other. Only possible to find and open them through ID editor, and they dont appear on mapillary website at all.
Something must have happened - many more of my photos from 21/11/2020 (Page not found) have just appeared on the map, including some that have been outstanding for 4 months.
While we investigate further, I just want to thank you all for doing such an amazing job diving into this issue and trying to work out what is going on. It goes a long way to helping us debug.
Thank you for the response. Do you know if any fix is likely to apply to past uploads?
This affects something like 30% of our captures, it’s quite frustrating and we can not understand how to avoid it (it’s something that’s made us look at self hosting & mapping)
The fix will definitely apply to previous uploads. The leading theory at the moment relates to a bot that we have that flags images that it thinks are not street-level imagery.
It looks like whole sequences might be getting flagged in the system if just one of the images is flagged by the bot. Some innocent images may be getting flagged such as an image of a wall or the ground which the bot marks as ‘not street-level imagery’.
Usually these false flags are reviewed and corrected for, but that system is broken. We’re hoping a fix we’ve just applied will rectify the issue.
@masterofnoroad I just went through a bunch of your pending images and approved/rejected the flags. Hopefully your images process and appear in your feed soon.
There were a few that were images looking straight at the ground or of a hand which won’t go through, but the rest should be fine.
This would not explain why your sequences have not had 3D reconstruction yet. That might be something else to look at . The issue other people are having means that their sequences do not even show on the map.
The quality score does not relate to the bot that flags images.
There is really needed some kind of reorganisation on how the sequences are being managed. Another problem I found few days ago:
I started to crop my gopro photos to get rid of the car hood. Accidentally my aspect ratio went to 2:1 (4000x2000px) so Mapillary took it as 360 photage and warped it around. The pictures were also flagged as no street level imagery so they don’t show up as a point, but you can navigate to them through arrows. The sequence is blocked so I cannot delete it as I made with other faulty aspect ratio sequences.
Look here please, and maybe unlock or delete this sequence:
Maybe Mapillary should think about some kind of admin level rights for most trusted and active users to self manage the photos? After all its the collaborative community project.
So maybe the algorithm is throwing out all parts of sequences with only one picture corrupt?
. The issue other people are having means that their sequences do not even show on the map.