Panoramax is a project to collect and display street-level imagery. The project is implemented as free/open source software and allows the crowdsourcing of images, which are then openly licensed. The project was started in 2022 by the French National Geographic Institute (''Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière'', IGN) and the French OpenStreetMap (OSM) chapter. It was designed and developed by a state-owned start-up and is updated and maintained by a community of volunteers and IGN staff. As a free & open source alternative to Google Street View, Panoramax is a federat
Panoramax is a project to collect and display street-level imagery. The project is implemented as free/open source software and allows the crowdsourcing of images, which are then openly licensed. The project was started in 2022 by the French National Geographic Institute (''Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière, IGN) and the French OpenStreetMap (OSM) chapter. It was designed and developed by a state-owned start-up and is updated and maintained by a community of volunteers and IGN staff. As a free & open source alternative to Google Street View, Panoramax is a federated system that allows individuals and organizations to host their own instances for image hosting.
== History == In 2021, the IGN launched a consultation on "geocommons". Initially, the project was designed to respond to the problems encountered by local authorities and other French stakeholders.
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