Do you rely on remote imagery? I made a tool and am looking for advice

3 pointsby pwmq5 anni fa2 comments

My friend and I have developed a tool that can be used to collect on the ground photo and video from a specific time and place. Not just another aggregator of social media posts. There will be a free offering as well as a paid offering, but right now we are still early stages of deciding how to make this sustainable and are trying to map out and prioritize the plethora of use cases for this, apart from the OSINT investigator & Citizen Journalism ones we began with.

If you are an investigator/journalist or even work with OSINT tools for something different and are willing to share your advice, we would really appreciate your thoughts! Please drop a comment here and I'll reach out.

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RicoElectrico5 anni fa

Not the target I guess, but this one of the challenges of OpenStreetMap. "Armchair mappers"[1] are aplenty, but sometimes you just need to see the place on the ground, which is OSM's gold standard [2]. An example is resolving Notes (ie. error reports) [3] which may take either hours or days to get resolved. Technically there's Mapillary and Kartaview, but the coverage is spotty and not always up-to-date.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Armchair_mapping

[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Map_what.2...

[3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes

RicoElectrico5 anni fa

Oops, I mean years instead of days. Can't edit the comment now...