<![CDATA[Request for permission to use a sample of photos for academic research]]>Dear Mapy.com Team,
I am a 4th-year Bachelor's student at the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography at Warsaw University of Technology (Poland). I am currently working on my engineering thesis and as a part of research section, I am comparing the performance of Visual Place Recognition algorithms. To conduct these tests, I require a dataset of geotagged photos from selected mountain trails (used as "query images"). Unfortunately, I do not have a sufficient number of multi-temporal photos in my personal archive that meet these criteria.

Therefore, I would like to kindly ask for your permission to use a small sample of photos available on Mapy.com along the following trail sections in Polish Tatra Mountains:

Przełęcz między Kopami (1499 m) - Czarny Staw Gąsienicowy (1620 m);
Myślenickie Turnie (1354 m) - Kasprowy Wierch (1987 m) - Beskid (2012 m);
Wodospad Siklawa (1565 m) - Przełęcz Zawrat (2159 m),
exclusively for academic research purposes.

I assure you that:

the photos will not be published anywhere (neither in the thesis itself nor in any materials submitted to the university later),
the only output of the evaluation will be aggregated performance charts and statistical error metrics of the tested models,
this project is strictly non-commercial and academic.
I would be extremely grateful for the opportunity to use these materials to advance my research project.

Best regards,
Szymon Węgliński

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