Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Bake-off - Mapillary and Panoramax

 Comparing 2 photo geolocation upload services, I considered dropping use of Mapillary if an equivalent portal exists beyond Google or Apple photos, first running into an incompatibility of graphic formats. The workaround was an un-edited image.

Panoramax authenticated through OpenStreetMap. 


4 strikes and out. Meanwhile the same image went into Mapillary in parallel.



After figuring out MS Paint edits mangled the GPS tags, the image stuck in Panoramax.





OpenStreetMap, local fork er spork off.

The panoramic image is off with only one in the sequence.

I uploaded an image with a license blurred, and Mapillary blurred it some more. In Panoramax, the plate was not blurred at all. 

The poll I ran heavily favored not using Mapillary. Including links to Mapillary on the main app/map page favors images on that site, though.


Other than the oddity of image-stretching, and the variation in blurring, both seem acceptable. I will try to use Panoramax with a few more EV charging stations, adding more useful details and missing stations.

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