Hi all
After seeing that Meta have released their own proprietary Gaussian Splat creator for Meta Quest VR, and that there’s no Mapillary Android app on Meta Quest, I was a bit worried that Mapillary’s street view images will be at risk in future. So I wrote a tool to download the data so it can be saved to the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping, it can be installed with:
pip install mapillary-downloader
I’ve been running it for a few months and have a couple of other volunteers helping, we’re focusing on 1024p “thumbnails” (--quality=1024) and have archived ~10% of them:
I’ve got another tool that rips and uploads CDs/DVDs to the archive, which can be found here: GitHub - bitplane/rip: Uploading old PC CDs to the Internet Archive
If you clone the above in Linux, a Mac, or in WSL2 in Windows, and drop the output of mapillary-downloader into the ./4.ship directory, then type ./scrip/4.ship.sh it’ll upload for you.
The first time it uploads, it’ll fail due to your user not having rights to the collection. Either edit .meta/collection to opensource (use./scrip/dip.sh for a bash TUI editor) and I’ll bulk move them as they appear, or send me an email (garethdavidson@gmail.com) and I’ll request that you’re added to the collection.
Thanks!
Gareth
