Friday Eye Candy: Take a Virtual Stroll Around the World

The Mapillary app allows users to upload their street-level photos into a geo-tagged sequence.

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December 18, 2015, 11:00 AM PST

The crowdsourcing app Mapillary just completed its "Mapillary Walk" competition, in the process collecting and sharing foot-level photos from beautiful locations around the world.

The Mappillary viewer animates these photo collections to provide a level of virtual geographic reality to locations through remote computer screens.

The power of the Mapillary technology is apparent in the top entries the competition: locations in the Algonquin Provincial Park in Canada and the Måryd Nature Reserve in Sweden finished in first and second, respectively. Locations in Fukushima in Japan and Madeira Island in Portugal tied for third.

Click here to see the Mapillary viewer experience of the Algonquin Provincial Park in Canada. Once in the viewer, click through the photos in sequence or jump to different locations on the map. In addition to these winners, the Mapillary collection includes 45,819,972 photos, as of this writing, covering 1,201,041.8 kilometers.

FULL STORY: Mapillary Walk Wrap Up

Thursday, December 10, 2015 in The Mapillary Blog

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