1. Mapillary seems to be Losing It’s Marbles
2. Git Along, Little Dogies
   (speeding up renaming files)
3. I’m losing my Marbles because of Mapillary
4. A new record for Mapillary - 62 blurs on a street sign

The picture below was shot on 15 July 2016 on the corner of Carnarvon Grove & Cavendish Road within the parish of Carlton, Nottingham. Like so many other Nottingham street signs it has been vandalised, in this case quite recently, and the vandalism was performed by Mapillary.

I suspect that Mapillary may have jumped the shark. They are certainly losing my affections. After about 10 12-hour days spent editing a few thousand blurs within 69 sets of photographs, yet without any action on their part, I recently sent them an email:

From: Me
Subject: Re: [Mapillary] Re: Re: [Mapillary] Blur editor ineffective
To: Mapillary <support@mapillary.com>

More problems with the Blur Editor window:

The left-hand window (it contain the “Add new blur” button) fills up when > 44 blurs are within the window. It needs a scroll-bar to maintain access to all components.

Thank you.

That street-sign above has a single blur within the centre of the sign which covers the entirety of the sign. It then has a further 28 blurs inside the first blur. That is so imbecilic that I keep having to lift up my jaw to close my mouth, but the most staggering fact is that the combination of all 29 blurs fails to blur the sign. Further, their own guidelines say not to blur “Street, traffic and information signs” How dumb is that?

I’ve lodged 6,200 photos with Mapillary, all shot whilst walking the streets of Nottingham suburbs & villages. They recently set a new algorithm in motion which vandalised 32% of those photos with unnecessary blurs (my evidence is that 92% of the new blurs are unnecessary).

I’m about halfway through trying to edit the blurs out of my photographs. I started with the most recent ones and have now just reached the photo above. No response yet from Mapillary after ~10 days as to whether they accept that the new blurs are a mistake, nor any action on my blur edits.

Update 23 June 2022

Mapillary has changed it’s download URLs & therefore all links within my diaries that use photos stored in Mapillary are broken. I’m slowly going through to update them. The new URLs are terrifyingly long, but show OK on my screen (and I also hope on yours).

Blurs are finally removed!