{"slug": "mapillary", "name": "Mapillary", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 9, "warners": 2, "score": 1.344, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2026-02-26", "latest": "2026-09-13", "why": "I upload street view pictures to Mapillary, which again can be used to automatically infer info into OSM", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 5, "compare": 0, "warn": 2}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I upload street view pictures to Mapillary, which again can be used to automatically infer info into OSM", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "mapillary.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.mapillary.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Mapillary"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 781194224, "item_id": 48824639, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824639", "by": "matsemann", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I upload street view pictures to Mapillary, which again can be used to automatically infer info into OSM", "excerpt": "I upload street view pictures to Mapillary, which again can be used to automatically infer info into OSM (like signs etc) But I feel very few OSM mapping apps use street view / have it as a feature. But for me it's the main feature I use Google Maps for. Like checking road conditions or finding nice places to camp when bikepacking. Which is why I also upload my stuff to Google (cars can't access most of these areas),", "context": "bikepacking", "use_case": "street view photo uploads", "switched_from": "", "story": "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"}, {"id": 781167425, "item_id": 48822964, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48822964", "by": "Krasnol", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "There is:", "excerpt": "There is: https://api.panoramax.xyz/en/index?focus=map&map=1.24/0/-0.6&speed=250&users=default and: https://www.mapillary.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "Street-level photo sharing", "switched_from": "", "story": "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"}, {"id": 763177411, "item_id": 47698588, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698588", "by": "komali2", "date": "2026-04-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Record open street view photos using Mapillary or similar.", "excerpt": "Go out and record free sounds https://freesound.org/ Go complete OSM quests using the \"Street complete\" app. Or just add stuff that's not on OSM yet using OsmAnd app. Record open street view photos using Mapillary or similar. Flesh out missing albums and metadata on musicbrainz.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies?"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 794804208, "item_id": 49675263, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675263", "by": "Krasnol", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "mapillary got bought up by meta.", "excerpt": "You can actually add a \"streetview\" level to the editor by adding the mapillary plugin and you can add material for others on the free and independent version: https://panoramax.fr/ mapillary got bought up by meta.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap"}, {"id": 754725376, "item_id": 47170336, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170336", "by": "ks2048", "date": "2026-02-26", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the experience is lacking, partly because most of the images (where I've looked) aren't 360 views.", "excerpt": "We need an open version (as OpenStreetMap is to Google Maps). Mapillary (https://www.mapillary.com/) has surprisingly good coverage in some places, but the experience is lacking, partly because most of the images (where I've looked) aren't 360 views.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Street View in 2026"}]}], "who": [{"by": "matsemann", "context": "bikepacking", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824639", "date": "2026-07-07"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["street view photo uploads", "street-level photo sharing", "street-level image mapping", "street-level panorama imagery"], "compared": [{"slug": "panoramax", "name": "Panoramax", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "openstreetmap", "name": "OpenStreetMap", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "google-maps", "name": "Google Maps", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "streetcomplete", "name": "StreetComplete", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674050", "title": "Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816883", "title": "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808928", "title": "CoMaps \u2013 FOSS Offline Maps", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490532", "title": "MapComplete \u2013 Contibute to OpenStreetMaps", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654062", "title": "Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47398479", "title": "'Pok\u00e9mon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"warn": 1}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 2}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 794875009, "item_id": 49679688, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49679688", "by": "florkbork", "date": "2026-09-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "mapillary did it first", "excerpt": "https://alltheplaces.xyz/ is a better version of this idea - grabs snapshots of structured data where the business has made an effort to publish it. Street view imagery is better for attributes on the actual street - mapillary did it first, with automated feature extraction for street signs etc, others have followed.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap"}, {"id": 794804208, "item_id": 49675263, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675263", "by": "Krasnol", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "mapillary got bought up by meta.", "excerpt": "You can actually add a \"streetview\" level to the editor by adding the mapillary plugin and you can add material for others on the free and independent version: https://panoramax.fr/ mapillary got bought up by meta.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap"}, {"id": 781194224, "item_id": 48824639, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824639", "by": "matsemann", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I upload street view pictures to Mapillary, which again can be used to automatically infer info into OSM", "excerpt": "I upload street view pictures to Mapillary, which again can be used to automatically infer info into OSM (like signs etc) But I feel very few OSM mapping apps use street view / have it as a feature. But for me it's the main feature I use Google Maps for. Like checking road conditions or finding nice places to camp when bikepacking. Which is why I also upload my stuff to Google (cars can't access most of these areas),", "context": "bikepacking", "use_case": "street view photo uploads", "switched_from": "", "story": "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"}, {"id": 781167425, "item_id": 48822964, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48822964", "by": "Krasnol", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "There is:", "excerpt": "There is: https://api.panoramax.xyz/en/index?focus=map&map=1.24/0/-0.6&speed=250&users=default and: https://www.mapillary.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "Street-level photo sharing", "switched_from": "", "story": "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"}, {"id": 781009408, "item_id": 48813088, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48813088", "by": "menturi", "date": "2026-07-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I don't think it auto-updates OSM based on these data.", "excerpt": "I remember seeing something like this where it could identify signs and things, but the quality from what I recall was not great (could be way off and have many duplicates). I might be remembering Mapillary, which has a Map data button at the top left and seems to show signs [0]. I don't think it auto-updates OSM based on these data. [0] https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=52.4758193487485&lng=-1.8892195275168433&z=16", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "CoMaps \u2013 FOSS Offline Maps"}, {"id": 775926323, "item_id": 48495395, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495395", "by": "pietervdvn", "date": "2026-06-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Mapilarry to link pictures to objects", "excerpt": "Hi! MapComplete dev here! One of the major differences is that, in StreetComplete, an object is hidden from the view once all quests are done. That makes StreetComplete a 'contribution-only' tool. (This changed in recent years, where Westnordost created 'overlays'). StreetComplete was a major inspiration though. In MapComplete, you will see _all_ objects (known in OSM) for a specific topic, wether or not there are un", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "MapComplete \u2013 Contibute to OpenStreetMaps"}, {"id": 763177411, "item_id": 47698588, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698588", "by": "komali2", "date": "2026-04-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Record open street view photos using Mapillary or similar.", "excerpt": "Go out and record free sounds https://freesound.org/ Go complete OSM quests using the \"Street complete\" app. Or just add stuff that's not on OSM yet using OsmAnd app. Record open street view photos using Mapillary or similar. Flesh out missing albums and metadata on musicbrainz.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies?"}, {"id": 758414353, "item_id": 47400897, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47400897", "by": "KaiserPro", "date": "2026-03-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "mapillary provides a platform for it, although now owned by facebook", "excerpt": "Niantic are a number of people who are doing this. Its not that clear from the article, but niantic spatial are using the images captured from users to create a 3d model of \"THE WORLD\" or where people play pokemon go. They have then fed that data into a more modern version of colmap (https://github.com/colmap/colmap) to create a point cloud. Then the engineering to make sure that point cloud is aligned accurately and", "context": "", "use_case": "street-level image mapping", "switched_from": "", "story": "'Pok\u00e9mon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images"}, {"id": 757177888, "item_id": 47323618, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323618", "by": "mrktsm__", "date": "2026-03-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Mapillary, the API I use for panoramas", "excerpt": "You may be right, I may need auth down the line. I wanted to reduce friction and let people draw right away though. I think the bridges thing is an artifact of Mapillary, the API I use for panoramas. Dashcams tend to overrepresent highways. Working on better curation.", "context": "", "use_case": "Street-level panorama imagery", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I Was Here \u2013 Draw on street view, others can find your drawings"}, {"id": 754725376, "item_id": 47170336, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170336", "by": "ks2048", "date": "2026-02-26", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the experience is lacking, partly because most of the images (where I've looked) aren't 360 views.", "excerpt": "We need an open version (as OpenStreetMap is to Google Maps). Mapillary (https://www.mapillary.com/) has surprisingly good coverage in some places, but the experience is lacking, partly because most of the images (where I've looked) aren't 360 views.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Street View in 2026"}]}