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Mohd

Double decker buses are great to gather mapping data. Just make sure you managed to grab the front seat on the upper deck, wish that the bus driver travels at a slow pace, gather all the data you think you want (and somehow piqued the next seat passenger about your slight eccentricity) et voila!

It's been a year plus, and I'm still mapping that map data...

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Mohd

And yeah, while fixing Meta's machine learning data along the way too. That's from 3+ years ago. At least Apple Data Team isn't making it worse over this part of the world. Fun.

MapAm💜re

@AkuAnakTimur

For sure, the view from the top would be great. Are you capturing, am imagery, too?

Mohd

@MapAmore

I took so many pictures, but they're unfortunately not picture perfect for Mapillary/KartaView.

Early in the morning, there was fog... later, I just realised the bus' windscreen needed a wash. Some pictures turned out to be massive busts due to sun angles.

Mohd

@MapAmore

That said, I did experiment with uploading some street level photos from a double decker bus in Mapillary, from 2015.

mapillary.com/app/?pKey=510557

Unfortunately, my upload speed is the bottleneck if I managed to capture tons of street level photos.

Amᵃᵖanda 🌼

@AkuAnakTimur I have a StreetComplete preset for the sort of quests you can do while looking out a car/bus

Mohd

@amapanda

I've never tried StreetComplete while on a bus... I'll probably give it a spin.

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