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submitted 5 months ago by Synther@lemmy.zip to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

I was wondering why there isn't or if there is, an Open Source (Free, or not) Street View like Google Maps. I like geography as a hobby, like my other hobbies, and found GeoHub which sparked my interest in being a free geoguessr alternative. I just don't understand why Google is the only Mapping service people go to, is Google the only one that has street view? is this a hard business model to achieve?

Please, I'd love too know :)

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[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Street-level_imagery_services#With_photosphere_support

I was also looking into this recently, and I think one of the limiting factors would be the storage and processing power you'd need to blur faces and license plates and then let everyone have access to millions of photos on demand.

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

I have a pretty weak computer doing real time face detection, so I can't imagine that being the problem. You could literally do it in real time while biking around.

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