tryl

tryl

My name is Simon and until recently I took at lot of images for Mapillary. But not after they were aquired by Facebook. Facebook to this day illegally steals peoples personal data. I will not support theft and I am disappointed that the founders of Mapillary has chosen to sell to one of the worst companies on the Internet.

On Mapillary I am also tryl, @MikkelsenDotTV1 at Twitter and simonmikkelsen at GitHub. I live in Aarhus, Denmark with my girlfriend and 2 children.

Professionally I am a software engineer at at large private company that does software for millitary, healthcare, public sector and libraries. I cannot tell you exactly what I do, because I would have to kill you smile

I know a lot of programming languages and technologies, Python is one of them and favored by Mapillary. Another language I enjoy is Javascript and has started to look at MapBox, Leaflet, GeoJson and various subjects of GIS. I enjoy working with open technologies, preferable free software / open source and only does Windows for money.

I also do photography on a semi professional level. I have done a lot of work for a local newspaper and been the videographer for several music videos.

Mapillary is a combination of technology and photography and I have contributed in both ways. As of writing about 150.000 images and 1 Python script.

But with two kids, one being 1½ year and the other 1½ month old there is no time for all this! A lot of my mapping is done by taking small detours when I go somewhere. The next day I will take a slightly different detour. Most of my mapping is done around a triangle of my home, work and kids kindergarten.

I mostly use a bike with an action cam. Hope to get more.

I think Mapillary is awsome! I remember when OSM was completely useless in Aarhus and less than a year later it had every detail. I try to photograph in every detail to be a good example to other mappers. On the Aarhus map you can see where I have been.