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.

If you don't trust Facebook on privacy issues, we have bad news. Credit: Mateusz Slodkowski / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Facebook has a spotty history when it comes to digital privacy, ...

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 ...

Solem CEO first said, 'From the day the service of Mapillary started, we provide global street level images to enable everyone to get the images and data they need to make better maps. We've been ...

Facebook has done a fair bit with maps in recent times — last year it opened up its AI tool to OpenStreetMap users and announced its plans to recreate an AR planet based on a 3D map of the world. More ...

No audio available for this content. Mapillary has released a video showing 3D models of locations its users photograph. The company said this gives users “the power to virtually explore their own ...

Those beautiful GoPro photos of your goofy travels on bike or skis may contain an unmapped part of the world. In its quest to surpass Google in visual mapping, the app Mapillary earlier this month ...

If you live out in the boondocks, out of reach from the Google Maps car, you might have noticed there aren’t too many pictures of your area on the Internet. Mapillary is hoping to change that with ...

Facebook has acquired Mapillary, a Google Street View competitor that uses computer vision to map communities, businesses and cities. Jan Erik Solem, CEO and co-founder of street-level mapping ...

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 ...