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If you want to repeat that in your neighboorhood in a smaller scale, there's https://www.openstreetcam.org/ (software open source, content CC-BY-SA) and https://www.mapillary.com/ (propietary afaik, content CC-BY-SA)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_street_view_services

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The best thing in my view about contributing to these services is that volunteers can use that imagery to improve www.openstreetmap.org

In my experience street level imagery is extremely helpful to add business names and other points of interest!

Open street cam looks pretty cool. I wonder how they're combining all of those images. Just looked it at, they're just a sequence of images of a drive. Don't expect a google street view like experience.

It's completely depended on what people contribute, if you collect 360 images with a 360 camera then you can get the google street view like experience. The community contributors to Mapillary have done a lot of 360 imagery.

Do they have a guide on how to setup your rig to get best results possible?

There's a forum where the community talks about capture setup https://forum.mapillary.com/c/contributing-and-equipment

It's varies a bit depending if you're capturing via car, bicycle, foot or any other mode of transport, then again based on your budget and how much effort you want to put into your setup.

> I wonder how they're combining all of those images.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_from_motion

Mapillary's open contribution (Structure from Motion pipeline):

https://github.com/mapillary/OpenSfM

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