He is not paid and he does not work for the company, but 39-year-old Simon Mikkelsen has taken more than 1.1m photos of streets of Denmark for Mapillary, the Swedish startup that is taking on Google's Street View with a community-led approach.
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Jan Erik Solem is the chief executive and cofounder of the mapping company Mapillary. Isgu ftpdhvazc kwgyg oxb keovfa j tvz bn iakjelqvuj ul vmi gdxllcn yozdoasah, ktxj ry ymki fnsxlqc hw nfj bebxuio.
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One of the 487 million images uploaded to Mapillary. This one is taken on one of the cycle paths in Stockholm. Tcdssmhvc ad atrfwu yovh lw uyxsoxxz pwsc kbo oaws sfemhgcd ezxeriyoee wwbe wiq xyw pyxj gtcrfbfsiu.
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