How To Add Image In Using Mapillary Desktop Uploader

Mapillary is a platform that has been widely used to add various geotagged photos mainly of streets. This company is now under Meta from 2020. The users can add both 2D as well as 3D images of the street. As there are a lot of cameras used to capture street imagery mainly in today's case there are a lot of handheld cameras that as GoPro, a case arises where the user has to add a lot of imagery at once into the platform.

There are different upload methods in mapillary, one is using mobile app of mapillary that uploads the images captured through mobile camera. Another is mapillary desktop uploader. The app can be downloaded from: Download Here 

Here is the way you can upload the images using Mapillary Uploader For Desktop.

Fig: Image captured through Garmin Virb camera.

After the image are captured, a large number of images had to be uploaded to mapillary. There is an app called Mapillary Uploader (link: https://www.mapillary.com/desktop-uploader) which can be used to upload geotagged photos to mapillary in bulk amounts. The first thing you should have is your mapillary account and login in mapillary uploader with your account. The overall process of uploading images to the mapillary is mentioned below:

The interface of the home page of the mapillary uploader is:

Fig: Mapillary Uploader

·     You can select the images to upload either drag the folder where you have kept the images or by browsing the folder.

Fig: Selecting image folder

Now your image gets ready for upload.

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Fig: Image ready for upload

Now that the image is ready for upload its time to change the direction to which the image has been captured. Inside the editing change the compass offset angle to the desired direction and click on interpolate direction.

Fig: Changing the direction

·      After changing the direction, you are ready to upload the images. It will take around 1-2 days to process your image. During the processing, the face of the people, vehicle number plates, etc is blurred. After the image is uploaded it will be shown on mapillary and also in OSM using Mapillary plugin.