Ability to take and upload photos

[Robbendebiene]

Allow users to take and assign photos to stops.

This has several use cases:

• Photos serve as an additional and objective data source
• People with impairments can pre-examine a stop to detect if it is accessible for their particular impairment
• Tagging stops later on
• Allow others to tag stops
• Validation
• Allow training of an AI for potential auto tagging or validation

Upload images to a separate server and potentially link their image urls to specific OSM elements or create notes for missing elements linking to the image.

The most common services are Mapillary and KartView

Comparison:

• KartView allows logging in with an existing OSM account
• KartView is nearly completely open source while Mapillary is acquired by Facebook and only open sources some parts
• KartView is not very actively maintained
• Less data and sophisticated than Mapillary (from my subjective analysis)

[pyrog]

Good idea 😉

Other picture sharing platforms (FOSS too):

• Wikimedia Commons
• Panoramax

Commons is still used by several OSM apps to store OSM objects (OSM Hydrant, Historic place…).

Panoramax is a new platform like Mapillary but multi instance. It could support in near future metadata to search pictures by "tag", identifiers…