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Mapilio is an independent street-level imagery platform. We host our own imagery database, built from photos shared by contributors and organizations. You can explore those images and use them as a reference for mapping. Mapilio is a hosted service, not a federated network of imagery servers.

Our goal is to make useful imagery easier to access and help people improve maps, including OpenStreetMap. Mapilio is independent of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Our terms explicitly permit extracting information from Mapilio imagery for contribution to OpenStreetMap under its contributor terms. We want to complement OSM, not replace it with a proprietary version. Read about Mapilio and OSM.

Mapilio is a commercially oriented project with open-source software, not a nonprofit initiative. Making imagery and mapping data easier to access is our main goal. We plan a marketplace where contributors can choose to capture requested imagery, share useful information with OpenStreetMap and earn income. Mapilio would receive a share of marketplace revenue to fund development and operations. Participation would be voluntary, with payment and data-use terms agreed before a contributor joins a job. This marketplace is planned; paid capture jobs and earnings are not being offered here yet.

We use computer vision to detect traffic signs and other street features in imagery and support map-data extraction. These results help mapping workflows; they are not automatically verified facts or automatic edits to OpenStreetMap. Contributors still need to review information and follow OSM contribution practices.

These are separate things. Public imagery is described in our licensing information as CC BY-SA. Our terms include specific permission to derive information for OpenStreetMap. Source code uses the license in each repository. The image or source-code license should not be read as a blanket license for every AI-generated dataset: check the terms supplied with the particular dataset, or contact us if they are not stated.

You can capture imagery, report a problem, improve documentation, help with translations or contribute code. Our mobile app and backend repositories are public. Start with the README and CONTRIBUTING guide in the repository you want to work on, then open a focused issue or pull request. We welcome developers who want to help shape what comes next.

The community leaderboard recognizes imagery contributions using contribution points. It also shows uploaded-image totals and contributed distance. These are Mapilio contribution measures, not counts of OpenStreetMap edits or a promise of payment. Updates to scoring and the web and mobile interfaces are on our roadmap.

You can contribute geotagged imagery from supported smartphones, action cameras and 360-degree cameras. Good GPS data and overlapping photos help mapping and processing. See our capture guide before you start.

Images go through processing before they appear on the map. Timing depends on the upload and processing queue. Check your upload status rather than relying on a fixed publication time.

Mapilio uses automated face and license-plate blurring. Automated processing can miss details, so please report an image that needs attention using the image-report control or contact us. See our privacy policy for information about personal data.