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1. karel-3d ◴[] No.41898110[source]
Hate that I can't put this on wiki commons because of the non-commercial license.
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2. rvnx ◴[] No.41899144[source]
Especially without link in the article
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3. mosaic360 ◴[] No.41903074[source]
Hi, sorry but that is not the purpose of this data. We are releasing it for research and education purposes.

You might redirect your critique to the other ~1000 companies in the world who have such data and don't release anything at all under any terms.

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4. karel-3d ◴[] No.41903378[source]
Sorry it's just a mild complaint. I am still happy that this dataset exists! Just my first thought was "ah I will put it on Wikimedia Commoms", and then... I realize I can't.
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5. mosaic360 ◴[] No.41903554{3}[source]
Yeah, we have our own self-serving reasons for sharing this dataset as you might guess, and I hope that we see some nice outcomes from having shared it.

What specifically would you like to use for wikimedia commons? You don't need all 1.25 million panoramas for that, do you?

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6. mosaic360 ◴[] No.41903562[source]
There is a link to a signup, and we will share the data with you.

We would like to know who wants the data and why. Because that's interesting, and we hope to make new relationships out of this. Throwing the data into the void is a bit too scary as the first step. Maybe next time? :)

thanks! Jeffrey and the Mosaic team

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7. rvnx ◴[] No.41910045{3}[source]
I understand, I just wanted to see the quality of some of the pictures to see how it compares to Google Maps or Apple Maps.

This way it can help to understand for which uses Mosaic X could be potentially useful (and this could bring creativity, e.g. to develop a game).

Satellite imagery providers often give a couple of sample pictures in the public as well.

8. karel-3d ◴[] No.41911430{4}[source]
A subset is a good idea. I will write you later.