Maprizon/sandbox
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| Author: | Kaart | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Status: | Active | |||||||||||||||||||
| Language: | English
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Imagery viewing plaform | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Introduction
Maprizon is a street-level imagery platform developed by Kaart, built as the successor to the Kaart Viewer. Designed natively with OpenStreetMap (OSM) editing in mind, Maprizon allows users to host, explore, and utilize full-resolution, uncompressed geotagged imagery from around the globe. The platform supports a wide array of capture devices—ranging from GPS-enabled mobile phones and 360° action cameras to drone photography and full video clips.
A defining characteristic of Maprizon is its flexible approach to data privacy and ownership. Users have the option to publish their captures publicly under an open license—benefiting OSM, humanitarian mapping, and open research—or keep them in secure, isolated private repositories for proprietary team use. To prioritize security out of the box, the platform automatically detects and blurs faces and license plates by default during the upload process.
Beyond standard image hosting, Maprizon differentiates itself with a comprehensive built-in viewing toolkit. Rather than exporting files for editing, users can adjust exposure, contrast, and brightness, or apply a colorblind-safe palette directly within the viewer to pull details out of shadows and highlights. The viewer also features an on-the-spot measurement tool to estimate distances and heights, alongside color-coded directional indicators that make it easy to distinguish exactly which way the camera was pointing.
Getting imagery onto Maprizon is streamlined for both casual and high-volume contributors. Users can bypass installation entirely by dragging and dropping files into the browser uploader for quick additions, or utilize the desktop application to batch-process large storage card dumps and continuous tracks automatically. Once uploaded, mapping with this imagery is seamless—whether using the platform's web application or its native JOSM plugin, which syncs imagery tracks directly into the mapping workspace to eliminate the need for juggling separate viewing tools. Imagery typically appears live in the platform within 15 minutes of upload.
Imagery mapping is now seamless, straightforward and easier to accomplish with Maprizon.
Key Features
Private vs. Public
Maprizon provides flexible, granular control over data visibility, allowing you to tailor access based on the needs of your project:
- Public Imagery: Public uploads are openly accessible to anyone on the web, requiring no Maprizon account to view. This is ideal for community mapping, open-source contributions, and general exploration.
- Private Imagery & Teams: Private data is securely isolated and linked directly to a specific team or organization workspace. Access is strictly restricted to invited and authorized members, ensuring confidentiality for proprietary workflows or sensitive captures.
- Dynamic Visibility: You retain complete control over your data long after it is uploaded. Access permissions can be adjusted at any time, allowing you to easily transition private captures to the public domain—whether you need to publish a single specific image or an entire dataset all at once.
| Private | Public |
| * Only visible to who you choose | * Free to capture, upload and view |
| * Roles, project & team access controls | * Upload continuous tracks or single images |
| * Full resolution imagery | |
| * Self hosting & data residency options |
Comprehensive Image Toolkit
Maprizon goes beyond basic image hosting by offering a fully integrated, on-the-fly viewing toolkit designed to give mappers and editors complete control over their workflow. Rather than simply viewing a static photo, users can manipulate, analyze, and enhance the imagery directly within the platform:
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Advanced Inset Map Display
Maprizon’s built-in inset map functions as a dynamic spatial reference rather than just a static track viewer. Designed to provide deep context while editing, it allows users to customize their mapping environment on the fly to best suit their workflow:
- Customizable Basemaps: Go beyond the default view by toggling seamlessly between a variety of OpenStreetMap-based basemap styles, or switch to high-resolution satellite imagery depending on the specific needs of your project.
- 3D Context: Enable 3D terrain and building models directly on the minimap to gain a richer topographical and architectural perspective of the capture environment.
- Track Visualization: Clearly view your image sequences, directional nodes, and coverage tracks overlaid on your chosen map layer, ensuring you always know the exact spatial relationship between your photos and the physical world.
- Flexible Positioning: For a more comfortable and unobstructed viewing experience, the inset map can be freely repositioned into any of the four corners of the interface, ensuring it never blocks critical details in the main imagery.
By combining these versatile layers, the inset map transforms into a highly practical, data-rich reference tool that significantly enhances accuracy and spatial awareness during complex mapping tasks.
Flexible Upload Methods
Maprizon provides versatile upload options tailored to the scale of your mapping project, ensuring a seamless pipeline from your camera to the platform:
- Browser-Based Web Uploader: Ideal for quick, casual contributions, the web uploader allows you to easily drop in smaller datasets of up to 250 images at a time without needing to install any software. It automatically handles the underlying formatting and processing, making it a frictionless way to get imagery online fast.
- Desktop Uploader App: Built for power users and heavy-duty data collection, the downloadable desktop application (Mac & Windows) is designed to efficiently process continuous tracks, large memory card dumps, and massive image sequences. This dedicated app includes advanced built-in features and configurations to ensure high-volume uploads run smoothly, maintain data integrity, and meet your specific quality standards.
- Rapid Processing Time: Regardless of which upload method you choose, the platform is optimized for speed. Once the upload is complete, your imagery is typically processed, mapped, and available live to interact with on the site within just 15 minutes.
By offering both a lightweight web tool and a robust desktop client, Maprizon ensures that uploading is just as convenient for a weekend mapper snapping a few photos as it is for an organization processing terabytes of street-level data
Native OpenStreetMap Integration
Maprizon was engineered from the ground up with OpenStreetMap (OSM) editing as its primary focus. The overarching goal of the platform is to bridge the gap between high-quality street-level imagery and accurate map data creation, offering tools that adapt seamlessly to how individual mappers prefer to work:
- Purpose-Built for Feature Extraction: The platform is specifically designed to allow editors to clearly view ground-level imagery, rapidly identify key real-world details—such as traffic signs, lane markings, or business storefronts—and accurately translate those features directly into OSM.
- Flexible Editing Environments: Recognizing that every mapper has a unique workflow, Maprizon offers multiple ways to interact with its data. You can utilize the robust web application for standalone viewing and quick feature identification, or install the native JOSM plugin to sync imagery tracks directly into your primary mapping workspace.
- Map Your Way: Whether you are doing quick, targeted edits in the browser or complex, high-volume digitizing natively within JOSM, the platform ensures the transition between viewing an image and updating the map is efficient and completely seamless.
Maprizon Web App
Serving as the primary gateway to the platform, the Maprizon web application provides full, centralized access to all of the platform's features. It acts as an intuitive starting point for new users to familiarize themselves with the interface, camera controls, and imagery navigation before diving into more complex, high-volume editing workflows.
Dedicated JOSM Plugin
For advanced mappers who prefer a centralized workspace, the Maprizon JOSM plugin brings street-level imagery directly into the editor, eliminating the need to toggle back and forth between a web browser and your map data.
- In-Editor Viewing: Access and explore full-resolution imagery natively within JOSM, keeping your focus entirely on feature extraction and map editing.
- Toggleable Imagery Layers: Maprizon image sequences load as a distinct, dedicated layer within the JOSM interface. This allows you to easily toggle the visual tracks on or off to reduce map clutter, see exact coverage areas, and quickly click to select the specific sequence you need.
- Flexible Workspace UI: The Maprizon image viewer integrates seamlessly into the JOSM dialog panel. For a more detailed or customized viewing experience—especially on multi-monitor setups—the image window can be completely undocked, popped out, and resized to best fit your personal workflow.
See also
Websites
- Public Image Map Maprizon Webapp
- Website Maprizon Homepage