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.
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.
mft_ · 2h ago
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.
jfoster · 2h ago
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.
mongol · 2h ago
Mapillary was acquired by Meta around this time. I am not sure if they changed focus then but seems likely. I was more active mapping for OSM before this and Mapillary often published blog posts on how their services could be utilized by OSM. But I have not paid much attention last couple of years.
jfoster · 2h ago
Based on their website it looks like the focus remains the same. I just wonder where the data lives.
growlNark · 1h ago
Wait, this code uploads data to a server somewhere? To what end? I would not have expected capture to come with mandatory redistribution, nor would I trust any third party with my location, let alone the output of my car's camera feeds. And I definitely wouldn't trust meta with, well, anything, let alone my own personal identifying information.
carstenhag · 23m ago
I'm not sure what you expected, Mapillary is built to make pictures and upload them with the most information possible. Street View but for everyone, and there's no need to have a 360° camera.
growlNark · 18m ago
I actually think I may have misunderstood, and this doesn't upload to mapillary by default.
...but that said, what is the kind of person to upload specific times and places where they were to a private corporation? What would motivate a person to do such a thing? Can you get paid for it?
[1] https://github.com/marcone/teslausb
[2] https://github.com/teslamate-org/teslamate
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.
...but that said, what is the kind of person to upload specific times and places where they were to a private corporation? What would motivate a person to do such a thing? Can you get paid for it?