Mapillary is a service for open-source sharing of crowdsourced geotagged photos, including 360° photos and street-level imagery similar to Google Street View. It is developed by remote company Mapillary AB, based in Malmö, Sweden. Mapillary was launched in 2013 and acquired by Meta Platforms, Inc. in 2020.
History
Mapillary co-founders were Jan Erik Solem, Johan Gyllenspetz, Peter Neubauer and Yubin Kuang.[2] According to Solem, Mapillary was founded to allow crowdsourcing of street-level imagery for use with computer vision.[3]
The project started in September 2013,[4] with an iPhone app released in November 2013, followed by an Android app released in January 2014.[5]