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In case you wonder, Panoramax instances are 100 % French for now. Even if the OSM-FR instance can be used for photos outside of France, don't expect yet to see lots of international photos on it. It takes time to communicate and convince people it's a good idea.

In France though, a few months ago, there was not really more than one big french city (Strasbourg) captured in 360°.

Now, more than ten big cities have interesting coverage. Check out this link to see a map of all the 360° photos https://api.panoramax.xyz/#focus=map&map=7.33/47.583/0.742&p...

In fact, lots of municipalities already have 360° photos of their streets... sleeping on their servers.

Interesting fact : in France, public funded administrations must open their data, by law, exceptions aside.

Disclaimer : I'm not working on the Panoramax project, but plugged it on https://cartes.app/?choix+du+style=oui&rue=oui#6.67/47.493/2... (https://github.com/laem/cartes), the French open source alternative to Google Maps, which is in dire need of good quality 360° photos !

parent maelito 2 years ago

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