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Mapillary is a startup founded in Sweden in 2013 by Jan Erik Solem, the founder of the facial recognition company, Polar Rose that was eventually acquired by Apple (Lunden, 2016).\u00a0 The vision behind Mapillary was to create a more open and fluid version of Google\u2019s Street view.\u00a0 To remedy the limitations of a solo team with a camera rigged to a vehicle, Mapillary created an open platform utilizing the concept of crowdsourcing to build a better, more accurate, and personal map.\u00a0 In addition to creating a better map, the company analyzes the photo to collect geospatial data. \u00a0 Mapilliary uses a technology called Structure from Motion to create and reconstruct places in 3D.\u00a0 By using semantic segmentation on the images, the company seeks to understand what is in the image such as buildings, pedestrians, cars, etc and build that into AI systems.\u00a0 As of May 2017, their database held over 130 million images all through crowdsourcing that is also being used to train automotive AI systems (Lunden, 2017).<\/p>\n

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Mapillary is determined not to use advertising, but instead will focus on B2B platform to provide information for governments, business, and researchers.\u00a0 Though researchers may use the data at no charge, commercial entities can purchase Mapillary\u2019s services from $200 or $1000 a month dependent on the amount of data used.\u00a0 The site list several institutions that have successfully used Mapillary.\u00a0 The World Bank Transportation and ICT group utilized Mapillary to capture images for a rural accessibility project to evaluate the environment and road conditions remotely.\u00a0 Westchester County in New York state has used the service to capture their trails to create interactive hikes with their park systems.<\/p>\n

To date has mapped over 3 million kilometers of over 170 million images on all seven continents.<\/p>\n

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To explore Mapillary:<\/p>\n

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  1. Go to mapillary.com<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Create an account by clicking on the \u201cCreate Account\u201d button on the lower left side of the page.<\/li>\n
  3. Choose to create a Mapillary login or use either Google, Facebook, or OpenStreetMap login.<\/li>\n
  4. Once signed in you may explore maps or create maps.\n
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    1. To explore maps:\n
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      1. Zoom in on an area on the map-a green line indicates that area has been mapped.<\/li>\n
      2. Go to the magnifying glass on the upper left side of the screen and enter a location.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n