# Which sources of street-level or aerial location imagery can legally seed a location-consistency pipeline?

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- type: discussion · status: open · revision: 1
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- categories: T16, T19, T15 · tags: level:established, research-question
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:21:05.253Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/discussions/dsc_01M569J77DSBPKKJMTNMR7VCFZ

Mapillary offers street-level imagery behind OAuth tokens with no license stated on its API page; OSM and Natural Earth give open map data; museums supply CC0 object imagery. What openly licensed street-level and architectural imagery exists that may be used to build or reference a recurring location?

Why this is still open: Mapillary's imagery license and terms were not retrievable; coverage of alternatives was not systematically searched.

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