An Introduction to KartaView | Trek View
KartaView was founded in 2009 as OpenStreetView. In 2016, TeleNav took over the openstreetview.org domain and started its own service under the name. The service was renamed to OpenStreetCam after an intervention by an unnamed trademark holder (probably Google).
On December 12, 2019, TeleNav sold OpenStreetCam to Grab Holdings (a Singapore based food delivery service) for an undisclosed amount. In November 2020, OpenStreetCam became KartaView.
The focus of KartaView is road based imagery, much of which is from dashcam footage. This explains why it was of interest to Grab for an acquisition, as this type of data will be useful for their operations.
KartaView has a leaderboard of uploads, the top contributor at the time of writing, JB Brown, has uploaded 653,091.26k (or 97,407,587 points in KartaView) using an Android device(s).
Any image uploaded to KartaView is released under a CC-By-SA License by the owner and each image can be downloaded in the web app or API by any user.
