An Impulse Buy

I recently bought a GoPro MAX on sale for $400, with the intent of collecting footage for Mapillary. However, I have yet to get the desktop app working on Ubuntu 22, and haven’t been able to authenticate using their CLI tool, so I haven’t uploaded anything.

Mounting the GoPro on my car

I’m using a magnetic mount to attach the gopro to the roof of my car. I was a bit nervous driving at highway speeds, but so far it’s held up going around 50 mph. The magnet is quite strong and takes some force to remove.

Processing the video locally

As a workaround, I’m just analyzing the footage locally using the mapillary_tools utility to locally process the footage into geotagged images and JOSM to view them.

This has the added advantage of preserving my privacy, since I’m a bit concerned about giving my geotagged video to Meta. This way I only upload a limited amount of data relevant to what I’m surveying.

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