It seems pretty clear that street-level imaging on OSM is pretty lacking, unless you only want to see highways.
I’m looking to start mapping street-level images for my city, but it seems like there are three players (integrated in the OSM editor), and I don’t know which to commit to:
-KartaView
-Mapillary
-mapilio
My gut is to go with the one with the largest user base (Mapillary), but they are owned by Facebook and who knows what direction they will take in the future or what our images will actually be used for in the long-run.
Karta seems dead.
And Mapilio seems like a knock-off of Mapillary, but with a much smaller user base and an uncertain future.
Are any worth investing hundreds of hours of time to?
Google Maps: you have to pay to use their images
Mapillary: sure it’s Facebook BUT all the images are just regular CC-BY-SA license… so you can do the normal CC-BY-SA things you want with them… including downloading them and hosting them somewhere else even.
Sure Facebook is evil, but in this department that’s not a problem…