Mapillary is a Swedish start-up that uses software to tell what is in photos taken at ground level. The company then lets other map builders use this street-level data to improve their own maps. The ...

Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world by way of a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, is taking an interesting step in the development ...

Mapillary is taking crowdsourcing to the streets, or more precisely, street views. Instead of relying on a single authority (cough, Google Street Views) to relay street level photos, Mapillary lets ...

Google Maps might be detailed enough to help you find a new restaurant, but if you want your car to autonomously drive you to dinner, it’s going to need a map that’s far more accurate. Now a startup ...

Facebook FB has acquired mapping technology provider Mapillary, per latter’s blog. The deal enables the social media giant to access the Swedish company’s trove of street-view maps and imagery data.

Google Street View is a pretty awesome tool that Google provides in its Google Maps app and desktop interface. It provides users photos of the area of the map they’re looking at, provided the Google ...