v2.27.0

[tyrasd]

This release is all about street-level photos 📷 👀

Show Local Georeferenced Photos

Photo mapping is a popular mapping technique: Take pictures of interesting map features as you go, and add these details to the map later at home. Now, iD directly accepts georeferenced photos (either via drag&drop or using the menu in the "Photo Overlays" section of the "Map Data" panel:

Work on this was started as a student project of last year's google summer of code. The work was now finally integrated into iD. Thank you Mukesh! 🤗

This works for photos (jpegs and in theory also pngs) which have a gps location metadata in their EXIF metadata. If your camera does not have the functionality to add the GPS location to photos, it is also possible to add this using external tools external tools, using a GPS trace captured by a smartphone or GPS tracker.

Two new street-level imagery providers 🎉

• Mapilio is a new provider of crowdsourced street-level photos, similar to Mapillary or KartaView. You can now directly see their photos as well. As the service is still young, coverage is not quite up there with the the older alternatives, but maybe you'd like to given them a try!
• The Norwegian Public Road Administration has permission to the Norwegian OSM community to use all open services from the Norwegian road administration, including this amazing collection of street-level photos of their road network. It will be definitely a valuable resource to keep OpenStreetMap up to date in Norway!

Thanks to the main contributors for these new layers: @Channel-S and @noenandre! 💐

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The full changelog of this release is available at https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/blob/release/CHANGELOG.md#2270

This discussion was created from the release v2.27.0.