I keep seeing this in edits, but where can you view this “Lyft-owned street-level imagery”??

Even searching for it comes up with nothing.

    • Showroom7561OPEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      Yeah, it’s really unfortunate that nearly all street-level imagery are either locked behind closed doors or have closed licenses.

      I could use Mapillary, but that’s owned by META. The rest are so lacking that it’s not even worth the time to contribute to them or use their existing data set (but this is a chicken and egg situation).

      • End0fLine@midwest.socialEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        I stopped using Mapillary because I just couldn’t stand using a Meta product anymore. Panoramax has way less footage, but I started contributing to it myself and then using the footage in OSM.

          • pietervdvn@lemmy.mlMEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            (Ooh, a wild mapcomplete mention!)

            MapComplete is mostly for picturers about single elements. We run our own Panoramax server for those images, but don’t generally accept ““real”” streetview imagery where one systematically captures whole stretches of road. Those can be sent to the instance hosted by the french community (for now).

            Signed, the mapcomplete dev

            • yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              Thanks for chiming in—this confirms my suspicion about the MapComplete instance of Panoramax.

              An OpenStreetMap France representative on the official forums informs me that long term, the French community’s instance is intended to host photos from France only.

              Just a reminder: the OSM France instance accepts pictures outside of France only for testing… we won’t be able to globally store pictures from all over the world for limited storage reason.

              This means unfortunately, from what I can tell, the rest of the world does not yet have a “home instance” for contributing stretches/sequences of street level imagery to Panoramax.

              • End0fLine@midwest.socialEnglish
                1·
                1 day ago

                The way it was described to me on Mastadon was that, until your area has their own server, you can use the French server. It will work because each picture has its own consistent ID, which won’t change once they are moved to a new server when it comes online. If they changed their mind, I didn’t know.

                I use the command line interface to upload mine, but the web UI is good as well, though a bit slower.