Kartaview

What is Kartaview?

The KartaView platform offers a collaborative, open-source approach to collecting and leveraging street-level imagery to enhance the OpenStreetMap ecosystem. Accessible to anyone with a smartphone, the platform enables users to capture and contribute images, which are then processed to extract salient details such as signage, lane markings, and road geometry. These extracted features can then be utilized by the community to refine and expand the OpenStreetMap data, empowering users to actively participate in the improvement of this invaluable open-source mapping resource

Highlights

• Crowd-sourced street-level imagery platform open to contributions from users with smartphones
• Automatic extraction of salient features like signs, lanes, and road curvature from uploaded images
• Integration with OpenStreetMap, allowing contributed data to directly enhance the open-source mapping project
• Familiar tools and workflows for the OpenStreetMap community to leverage the imagery and extracted data