New Projects & Resources: Introducing OpenStreetView (Street Level Imagery) From OpenStreetMap

New from OpenStreetMap (OSM).
From an Introductory Blog Post:

After almost a year of thinking, development and testing, the OSM team at Telenav is ready to present OpenStreetView to all OSM mappers! OpenStreetview (OSV) is the free and open street level imagery platform designed 100% with OSM and mappers in mind.
OSV is a web site, openstreetview.org, free and open source mobile apps for Android and iOS, a specialized Map Editor, a plugin for JOSM, and of course a back end server. Support for iD is also planned.
The web site is where you go to explore imagery from all over the world, see leaderboards and your own profile and trips.
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The apps are free to download from the play / app store. For Android, you can also download the APK directly. With the apps you can capture trips. They are optimized for driving but also work well for biking and walking scenarios. Apart from recording trips, you can also upload your trips to OSV.
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…we already have an active community reporting issues and suggestions on Github. This is the best place to let us know of any bugs and ideas you have about any part of OSV. Github is also where all the source code for all the components mentioned here is located. Almost everything in OSV is open source, and if it is not we are looking at how we can make it open source.

MUCH More About the Project andResources in the Complete Blog Post
Direct to OpenStreetView Map
Direct to OpenStreetView Apps  iOS ||| Android
See Also: OpenStreetView on Twitter
See Also: Mapillary
Another project using crowdsourcing to collect street level imagery.

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