Panoramax question
I always wanted street-level imagery to be a bigger thing in #OpenStreetMap data. Not 360-degree road images like Street View, but photos of points of interest.
I always felt queasy about #Mapillary because of its proprietary nonsense and that feeling was confirmed when it was sold to Facebook/Meta.
Now the next big thing is #Panoramax and apparently it's FOSS and federated and all.
I'm just wondering how it works. It still relies on a single centralised "meta" instance apparently. That's also the link that we'd add to #OSM data.
If that goes down, is sold, or gets compromised, isn't the whole thing for nothing? If an instance shuts down, does it just take down all data ever contributed? Are photos backed up across all instances?
