id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
19560	Plugin request: Universal street-level imagery	stanton	team	"Currently every source of street-level imagery comes with its own implementation:

* Local geotagged photos
* GPX traces with photo attachments (as produced by e.g. OSMTracker for Android)
* OpenStreetCam
* Mapillary
* Bing Streetside

That leads to a multitude of different imagery layers, different UX for each plugin, different hotkeys etc.

Suggestion: Implement an abstraction layer for imagery access and a generic imagery plugin on top of it.

Such a plugin should allow the user a choice of which sources to use (i.e. select online services and/or local collections of images) and let them control when images from an online source get downloaded.

The former photomapping plugin (now part of core) and the Mapillary plugin have fairly good UX. Taking the Mapillary plugin and extending it to support OpenStreetCam (which currently has poor UX and is quite unstable) might be a good starting point. Also, Bing uses the Mapillary plugin code as a basis for its own code, so there might be some existing work relating to integration of other imagery sources.

Enriching it with some of the photomapping functionality and adding support for local imagery could be further steps down the road."	enhancement	new	normal		Plugin