The OpenStreetCam data originates from 3 sensors on a smartphone to:
- The Camera to capture imagery at a set frequency.
- Accelerometer to collect ride quality data at a set frequency.
- GPS to collect location data at a set freqeuncy
Open Steet Camera is designed by the company Telenav. Telenav designed OSC to gather street imagery for the OpenStreetMap platform to offer open sourced street imagery data for several mapping applications.