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2026 8

  1. Complete The Map 2026 Europe with HERE
  2. Crowdsourcing Safer Streets: How Safest Way Scales Navigation Infrastructure with Mapillary
  3. Announcing The Mapillary Camera Grant Programme 3.0
  4. Giving AI a Sense of Place: How Mapillary Imagery Powers Spatial Grounding
  5. Introducing The Mapillary API Demo Tool
  6. What’s New in the Mapillary iOS App: Zoom, Rotate, Talk
  7. Leveraging Mapillary to Support Pavement Management with Timmons Group
  8. Automatically Detecting Building Entrances with Mapillary

2025 10

  1. Mapillary in Paradise: Travel to Turks and Caicos with World Travel in 360
  2. Launching CompleteTheMap with OpenStreetMap US
  3. Announcing CompleteTheMap Europe with HERE
  4. From Satellite to Street-Level: How MapSwipe’s New Mapillary Integration is Transforming Mapping
  5. One man mapped all of Scotland’s car-free National Cycle Network on Mapillary. Here’s how he did it.
  6. Mapillary iOS app camera improvements
  7. Announcing the Camera Grant Program 2.0 with OpenStreetMap US
  8. Seeing Green: Measuring Pedestrian-Level Street Greenery with Mapillary Imagery
  9. Harnessing Mapillary for Open Mapping and Disaster Resilience in the Philippines
  10. Maps That Drive Sustainable Mobility: The Cycling Revolution in Querétaro

2024 11

  1. Detroit: the most covered city on Mapillary
  2. Recapping the Mapillary Camera Grant Program
  3. The all-new Mapillary iOS App, and what’s to come
  4. How Kauê Built Detailed Pedestrian Maps in Brazil
  5. Managing Critical Infrastructure with Mapillary in The County of Fresno
  6. Expanding Access to Public Street-Level Imagery in the US
  7. Vietnam Mapped: A Ridesharing Company's Open Data Initiative
  8. We're launching photorealistic Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) at Mapillary
  9. Introducing the all-new Mapillary Android App
  10. Building a 360 Camera Dedicated to Street-level Imagery
  11. Mapillary Celebrates 10 Years and 2 Billion Images!

2023 13

  1. Nigerian Health Facility Access with Mapillary
  2. Participatory Mapping of Bicycle Paths in Urban Mexico
  3. Launching a European Camera Grant Program with OpenStreetMap Belgium
  4. Is your Dash Cam/Action Cam supported? (With these updates - it just might be!)
  5. A Street-View Photographer's Journey to Contribute to Mapillary
  6. A One-Man Mission to Map Brussels, Belgium
  7. Recapping State of the Map US 2023
  8. Announcing the Mapillary Camera Grant Program with OpenStreetMap US
  9. Street-Level Imagery for Disaster Mapping and Relief
  10. Mapillary's Commitment to Overture
  11. Street-level Imagery for Safe and Clean Streets
  12. Video Support Arrives to Mapillary
  13. One year with Mapillary Android

2022 3

  1. Mapping the USA with Mapillary Missions
  2. Mapillary’s Smartphone Mount Reviews and Recommendations
  3. The first ever Mapillary Missions challenge: Japan Edition

2021 14

  1. Launching Mapillary Missions Beta
  2. Data on demand with the Mapillary Python SDK
  3. A Summary of Recent Updates to Mapillary
  4. Introducing MapillaryJS v4
  5. Getting Started with the new Mapillary API v4
  6. Facilitating the Future of Mapillary: Updates for June 2021
  7. Secure Your Mapillary Account with a New Password
  8. Mapping Africa's highest mountain - A trek up Mount Kilimanjaro
  9. Mapillary
  10. A look at pedestrian infrastructure globally
  11. Call for Updates: Confirming Mapillary Username and Email
  12. Preparing for the new Mapillary API
  13. Reflecting on 2020
  14. Upgrading to Vistas 2.0

2020 30

  1. Introducing Smart Edits: AI-assisted map-editing for point features with JOSM and Mapillary
  2. Turn a Tesla into a mapping vehicle with Mapillary
  3. Microsoft Open Maps: Using Mapillary to improve OpenStreetMap in Serbia
  4. The Latest and Greatest for Mapillary in OSM iD for November 2020
  5. Introducing the Quality Score - Automated image quality estimation
  6. The evolving camera landscape and our 2020 recommendations.
  7. Power Mapping brings Rapid Reliable Energy to Rural Communities
  8. Mapping golf courses with Mapillary and OpenStreetMap
  9. Extending Object Detections to Scene Classes
  10. Updating our Street Level Image Privacy Blurring
  11. Global access to map data with the Mapillary API
  12. Mapillary map features now available globally in OpenStreetMap
  13. Introducing the Mapillary Planet-Scale Depth Dataset for Single-View Depth Estimation
  14. Mapillary Joins Facebook on the Journey of Improving Maps Everywhere
  15. Towards safer transportation: #map2020 in 2020
  16. Learning with Verification: Improving Object Recognition with the Community’s Input
  17. Achieving More with Street-Level Imagery: Geocortex Adds Support for Mapillary in Geocortex Essentials
  18. Introducing the Mapillary Street-Level Sequences Dataset for Lifelong Place Recognition
  19. Improving Maps for Better Capacity Planning in the Fight Against Covid-19
  20. Upgrading Mapillary for JOSM: Focused Editing with Filters
  21. Mapping in the Times of Covid-19 and How You Can Help
  22. Launching #map2020 for Improved Navigation in Undermapped Regions
  23. Mapping Latin America by Bike: Tales From Nomad Maps
  24. Visualize the Future of Cities with Mapillary in ArcGIS Urban
  25. Unveiling the Mapping in Logistics Report: The Impact of Broken Maps on Last-Mile Deliveries
  26. How to Use Mapillary Data in Jupyter Notebooks
  27. CompleteTheMap VI
  28. How to use Mapillary point data in OpenStreetMap iD
  29. Street-Level Images for Better Public Transportation in Latin America
  30. Innovative Uses for Mapillary in Field-Based Research Projects

2019 53

  1. New Optical Flow Records using Mapillary’s Five Elements of Flow
  2. Achieving New State-of-the-Art in Monocular 3D Object Detection Using Virtual Cameras
  3. A Look Back at 2019 and the Road to One Billion Images
  4. Unveiling our Latest Research: Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation from Automatic Annotations
  5. Building Resilience Through Mapping: Learnings from Understanding Risk and State of the Map Africa
  6. Mapillary on the AWS Marketplace: An Even Easier Way for AWS Customers to Get the Map Data They Need
  7. The Data That Paves the Way: How We’re Building the First Open Dataset for HD Maps
  8. Helping Cities Across the US to Understand Their Streets: Unveiling our Partnership with IWorQ
  9. Accessing Machine-Extracted Map Data: Improved Data Downloads
  10. Mapillary at ICCV 2019: Unveiling our Latest Benchmark Wins
  11. Mapillary, OpenStreetMap, and OSGeo: State of the Map and FOSS4G Retrospective
  12. The Camera That Turns Any Fleet into a Mapping Fleet: Say Hello to the Mapillary Dashcam
  13. See Your Mapillary Milestones in the iOS App
  14. Towards a driverless future: How Mapillary is teaming up with Siemens to teach streetcars to see in a fully autonomous depot
  15. Using Mapillary in Education: Street-Level Imagery for the Next Generation of GIS Professionals
  16. Announcing the Second Global Verification Challenge
  17. More Ways to Teach the Machine to See: Spotting Missed Objects
  18. Protecting Privacy in the World of Better Maps: How Collaboration Paves the Way
  19. Mapping Accessibility in Istanbul and Beyond
  20. Welcoming lvl5 Imagery and Contributors to Mapillary
  21. Mapping the Galápagos Islands for a Better Understanding of Human Impacts on the Environment
  22. Looking Back at Esri UC 2019
  23. Announcing the Winners of #map2020
  24. How Innovative Student Research Projects Help Map the World
  25. Introducing the Mapillary Partner Program
  26. Winning at CVPR 2019: Mapillary Tops Two Computer Vision Benchmarking Challenges
  27. Introducing the Mapillary Traffic Sign Dataset for Teaching Machines to Understand Traffic Signs Globally
  28. The End of the Map as We Know It
  29. From Ghana to Iraq: How #Map2020 Mappers Use Street-Level Imagery to Tackle Humanitarian Challenges
  30. Visualizing the 3D World: A Practical Approach to Polygon Triangulation on the Sphere
  31. Training Machines to Attain a 3D Understanding of Objects from Single, 2D Images
  32. Effortless Mapping with a Customized Mapillary Dashcam
  33. Against All Odds—Mapping by Bicycle Along the Elbe in Spring
  34. Geochicas: Helping Women Find their Place on the Map
  35. How to Use Mapillary Data in OpenStreetMap
  36. Map Data on Demand: Announcing the Mapillary Marketplace
  37. Scale Imagery Collection with Capture Projects: Android App Now Available
  38. Announcing #CompleteTheMap V
  39. Launching #Map2020: A New Campaign for Building Better Maps in Undermapped Regions
  40. Building the Global Street-Level Imagery Platform: How We Test Software at Mapillary
  41. Five US Departments of Transportation Upload 270,000 Miles of Road Data to Mapillary to Understand Road Safety
  42. Improved Viewing Experience: Announcing Combined Panning in the Mapillary Viewer
  43. 500 million images available to everyone
  44. Announcing Verification Projects: A Scalable Way of Validating Machine-Generated Data
  45. And here are the winners!: Guess When We Hit 500 Million Images and Win a BlackVue Camera
  46. Introducing Seamless Scene Segmentation: Allowing Machines to Understand Street Scenes Better by Turning Two Models into One
  47. Full Speed Ahead: How Toyota Research Institute is Accelerating its Machine Learning Algorithms with Mapillary
  48. Improved Upload Management in the Desktop Uploader
  49. Deriving Data from Imagery: An Intro to Deriviste and OpenStreetMap
  50. Announcing Capture Projects: An Entirely New Way of Collecting Map Data at Scale
  51. From Sideline to Center: The Potential for OpenStreetMap to Seize the Curb
  52. Doing way more with Less: Catching up with the Mapillary Research Team
  53. Updating Maps with Cameras: 42 New Object Classes Now Available as Map Features

2018 55

  1. Ramp up Imagery Collection with the New Mapillary Desktop Uploader
  2. 2018 Year in Review
  3. Announcing #CompletetheMap IV
  4. Community Mapping Projects in 2018
  5. Mapillary in Japan
  6. Exploring Zanzibar with Mapillary: Pt 2 - The End of the Road
  7. Exploring Zanzibar with Mapillary: Pt 1 - The Chief Officers’ Logbook
  8. Automating the Process: Collecting Traffic Sign Data in Clovis
  9. Announcing Mapillary SDKs: Add Mapillary Capture Functionality to Any Mobile App
  10. Launching the Better, Faster, Upgraded Mapillary Web
  11. “A lot of white roads waiting to be turned green”—JB Brown and his 200,000+ mapped kilometers
  12. Building Maps with Street-Level Imagery for Disaster Risk Reduction and Response
  13. Five Years of Mapillary—From the First Image to a Global Platform
  14. Improving the Viewing Experience: Image Undistortion in MapillaryJS
  15. Map the Alps with Mapillary, HERE, and Garmin
  16. Analyzing Parking Signs at Scale: How Mapillary is Working with Amazon Rekognition to Help US Cities End Their Parking Troubles
  17. Announcing the Winners of the Joint COCO and Mapillary Recognition Challenge Workshop for ECCV 2018
  18. Winning the ECCV Semantic Segmentation Challenge for Autonomous Navigation in Unstructured Environments
  19. Celebrating Five Million Kilometers of Mapillary Coverage
  20. Extending the Mapillary Vistas Dataset for Perfecting Street Scene Segmentation Models
  21. Welcoming Till Quack to the Mapillary Team
  22. Up-to-date GIS Data Across the Globe with Mapillary for Organizations
  23. The Road Less Traveled: How Students Used Mapillary and OpenStreetMap to Highlight Accessibility Issues in Their City
  24. Building the Tools to Show Us the Way: How Mapillary is Ramping up Traffic Sign Recognition Globally
  25. Winning the CVPR Semantic Segmentation Challenge: How Mapillary Makes Computer Vision Algorithms Effective and Robust
  26. Launching Mapillary for Organizations: Work Together with the Freshest Map Data
  27. Balancing Urban Infrastructure: Perspectives from Valencian Cyclists
  28. Simpler Command Line Tools for Everyone
  29. More Flexibility to Compare Images with MapillaryJS
  30. Editing in Map Creator with Mapillary Imagery
  31. Join the HERE Game of Maps
  32. (Geo-)Social Media and Mapping: Which Spatial Footprints Do We Leave via Online Services?
  33. HERE and Mapillary: Linking Two Global Communities
  34. Creative Commons Summit and How Mapillary Makes Global Relations
  35. Global #CompletetheMap Returns
  36. Accurate Privacy Blurring at Scale
  37. Scaling up with a $15M Investment
  38. March 2018 Leaderboards
  39. Mapping and Machines: Level up with AI
  40. Vermont Opens Up 5 Years of Road Imagery for Improving Transportation Services
  41. How Red Cross Uses Data During Global Disasters
  42. Let's Visualize the World with AI and GIS
  43. February 2018 Leaderboards
  44. MapillaryJS Now Enables Fast Sequence Navigation
  45. Challenging the Winter Dip, from Australia to Uganda
  46. What We Learnt about GIS at the Mapillary Meetup
  47. January 2018 Leaderboards
  48. Mapillary for ArcGIS Pro Enters Public Beta
  49. From Street Level to Peak Level: Adventure Mapping in Morocco
  50. Citizen Engagement for Youth—Reporting School Route Issues with Mapillary
  51. Tracking Placemaking in Public Spaces
  52. Autonomous Intelligent Driving Advances with the Mapillary Vistas Dataset
  53. Mapillary GIS Meetup—Malmö, 6 Feb
  54. Between the Lines in Helsingborg: Locating Assets via Imagery
  55. New Benchmarks for Semantic Segmentation Models