<story><title>Introducing OpenStreetView</title><url>https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/39274</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewljohnson</author><text>Similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mapillary.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mapillary.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s great to see more open data like this, lots of uses for creating maps by hand or even machine learning.</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing OpenStreetView</title><url>https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/39274</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nixos</author><text>I understand that it&amp;#x27;s a volunteer effort, and volunteers don&amp;#x27;t have the hardware required for even 180 degree view, but most pictures are taken out of the front of the car, limiting its worth (2&amp;#x2F;3 of the picture is road, not the houses on the side).&lt;p&gt;It would be more useful if people stuck two phones (one on each side of the car) to take pictures of the passing buildings rather than road</text></comment>