This article is about 5 years old. I wonder if the project went anywhere?
I hadn't heard of Mapillary before, but it seems like a great idea to add street-view-like functionality to OSM. I'm wondering if the data is easily viewable somehow on the OSM interface? After having a quick look now, I couldn't seem to find it.
Funnily enuogh, this was a rabbit-hole I dived down when I was given a company Tesla for a while, and was frustrated by the last of streetview imagery available where I lived. Unfortunately, the teslausb distribution was just too unreliable at the time, and I never found the time/energy for a ground-up re-write.
For those concerned about contributing to Mapillary specifically, there are alternatives to contribute to, like Panoramax, which is fully open source and supports federated instances, and is not owned by Meta.
(Panoramax integrates with iD and JOSM just Lille Mapillary.)
This is a very creative idea, but I wonder how practical it really is. The blog seems old and doesn’t go into detail about productionizing such a pipeline formats. Without a straightforward way to address these issues, it feels more like a clever experiment than something scalable for real-world mapping. Because an average tesla owner will not go through those steps.
Also could be phrased as: perform unpaid labour collecting surveillance data for Meta (who ultimately control the data source)
Near realtime streetview would be cool
This could use an upgrade. Combining teslausb [1] for video retrieval and teslamate [2] for GPX retrieval, you could probably make this an automatic pipeline. Add in some "excluded locations" and I could see this as a full solution.
[1] https://github.com/marcone/teslausb
[2] https://github.com/teslamate-org/teslamate