The Mapillary web app makes it easy to explore, analyze and download generated map data from your imagery. This guide will teach you how to navigate the web app like a pro🚀

 

📖Table of Contents

1. Exploring the map and images
2. Navigating through a sequence
3. Keyboard shortcuts
4. Filtering imagery
5. Additional image options
6. Changing the base map

🗺️Exploring the map and images

Your first glimpse of Mapillary is a sea of green—lots of green areas, lines, and dots cover the map.  

 

Zoom in! You'll start to see the map render as lines. Zoom in even further, and you'll see that each line is made up of many connected dots—each one of these dots represents an image. 

This line-dot geometry represents what we call sequences—series of images, connected by capture time, that show a path of motion through a given area. 

Try clicking on one of the dots. An image will appear in the bottom left corner, and the sequence that the selected image is a part of is symbolized in blue.

 

You can enlarge an image by clicking on the arrow at its top right corner. This will minimize the map view. You can use your mouse to scroll and zoom the image (up to the finest level of detail that the original image resolution allows) or to drag and pan the image around. 

A directional icon is present in the bottom right corner of the image view, indicating which way the camera is facing. 

 

↔️Navigating through a sequence

On the image, you will notice two sets of arrows: one for sequence navigation (at the top), and one spatial navigation (at the bottom). The playback arrows will let you navigate and autoplay the specific image sequence that the image belongs to, while the spatial arrows let you view the surrounding images in the space, regardless of which sequence they belong to.

 

Sequence navigation also has a few additional controls. You can access them when you click on the vertical bar next to the sequence arrows at the top.

 

   

 

The hare icon lets you change playback speed or direction of the sequence. If you click on the arrows icon on the left, you'll see that the triangle of the play button at the top will change direction. To change playback speed for auto-play, move the slider closer to the turtle for slowing down or hare for speeding up.

 

 

The frames icon lets you navigate anywhere in the sequence quickly via the sequence timeline. Slide the orange button to the left to approach the beginning of the current sequence, and to the right to approach the end of it.

 

 

Note that on fast navigation or playback speed, spatial arrows at the bottom of the screen might not be loaded for every image. This is for performance reasons and they'll be loaded again when you stop on an image.

 

🎹Keyboard shortcuts

Navigation arrows also have keyboard shortcuts. These shortcuts only work on the condition that the respective sequence or spatial move is available, as indicated by the displayed arrows (which in turn depends on which imagery exists in the area).

 

The following shortcuts apply to all images:

• Left/right arrow: step left/right in space
• Up/down arrow: step forward/back in space
• Alt + up/down arrow: step to next/previous image in sequence

There are additional shortcuts for perspective (i.e. non-panorama) images:

• Shift + left/right arrow: turn left/right
• Shift + down arrow: turn around (180 degrees)
• Shift + up arrow: go to nearby panorama image

 

🔎Filtering imagery

To filter imagery on Mapillary, click on the filter icon on the top-left bar. 

You can filter by a username, date range, apply a symbology for imagery age (red, yellow, green, with green being the newest), and filter by 360 imagery. 

When you apply a filter, the icon turns yellow. If you close this window and the icon remains yellow, it means that you have some filtering applied to your view.

 

The filters are reflected in the web app URL so you can easily share or store the link for quick access to a specific filter setup. This is very handy e.g. when you capture for a project within a specified timeframe and/or in a team.

 

 

 

🏞️Additional image options

The 'Map data' button on the top-left bar allows you to toggle on object detections (visible in images) and map features (visible on the map). Check out the articles linked below for detailed guides to viewing these:

 

Exploring object detections on the Mapillary web app

Exploring point map features with the Mapillary web app

Exploring traffic signs with the Mapillary web app

 

Additionally, the buttons on the right side of the screen can enable you to do the following:

• Sharing the current image (via social media, URL, and embed codes)
• Time Travel (if available)
• Download a thumbnail of the image
• Edit blurs on the image
• Open the image to edit OpenStreetMap via JOSM or RapiD, iD editor, or add to Wikimedia
• Obtain the image key or the sequence key

 

🌏Changing the base map

Mapillary images can be displayed on different base maps. You can use the layer icon on the right-hand side of the map view to choose the base map that you wish to see. The OpenStreetMap base map is particularly helpful if you're looking to edit OSM.