Yesterday, in the iOS app, on the profile page I stumbled upon the achievements tab.
Apparantly it’s been there for a while… (october last year?), which says:
'Level 5
Contributed 100k images
You earned a gift! We want to thank you for a great job. We’ll get in touch to get it to you’.
Now… has anyone actually heard from that? (being contacted, and if so how?)
All I can find on the subject for now is this blog post, which is very vague on what exactly it is about…
Yes it happens. I was emailed direct asking for a delivery address. I was sent promo material, a magnetic vehicle sign, a couple of camera mounts and a bandana. (for 1M images)
I got emails when I reached 100K and 500K. It may be related to which notifications are allowed - I think I have them all enabled. Anyway, both letters contained a link and a password to Mapillary Store.
I think I got 500K images done sometime in december and got the email on 12th of february. So there is definitely some delay.
I got an email when I reached level 5 (100k). I filled out a form, but haven’t received anything yet. It’s been about a month since filling out the form.
I don’t know how often they pack and send these requests but i suspect that their main focus is the core business and the community is important, but secondary.
There should be a password in the email, mine had it like these:
Use XXXXXX as the password to log into the store.
The password for the store is XXXXXX
Yes, the same thing happened to me. The email I got was this:
"Congratulations on reaching an important milestone in your Mapillary journey. You’ve passed the 100,000 image mark, which makes you one of the most significant contributors in the Mapillary community.
You’re helping create better maps all over the world because the data from each image is available to anyone through our platform. The whole mapping community is grateful for your contribution. If you’d like to discover more about how to use Mapillary data in OpenStreetMap, this blogpost might be interesting for you.
Your next adventure is reaching 500,000 images. When you reach your next milestone, we will send out Mapillary Swag to express our appreciation for your contributions to Mapillary.
We would also like to hear your feedback on using Mapillary, so please reply to this email if you have any thoughts to share. Thank you for joining us on this journey.