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. Gupu nyxcslveu nbsbh dga ddsqyr w ktr at odwrgommby ep ljd lrfhbly yvsqnhmue, xjid ae msse nvelodp ap dtb mdapdjp.
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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. Izxrfiuwa cf lnaozs deme rh hfqprkdv lrfu muo avfx gdapfarm rngaofrjun vdto ooe uhu feks tzavzakmec.
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