Mapillary: image date sometimes disappears

[richlv]

Normally the plugin shows image author and date/time in the image viewing window titlebar.
Sometimes, this information disappears.
Not sure about the exact steps, it just happens when clicking on various images and using JOSM normally.

[taylor.smock]

I noticed this yesterday when I was doing some testing for yesterday's release.

In my testing, the difference is that the image without a timestamp is outside the JOSM OSM download area, and the image with the timestamp is inside the JOSM OSM download area. Was that the case for you?

[richlv]

For me this happens with images in JOSM downloaded data area.
BTW, this is an old problem, have seen it for a long time.

[taylor.smock]

This should be fixed in ​0ee694d47efacf79ff088efdc11771e0ee22b377. This isn't merged into master yet (there are some other fixes I want to add to the branch), but this should be fixed in the next Mapillary release.

[richlv]

Oh neat. thank you for the quick fix :)

What caused this - as in, what situations result in the timestamp missing?

[taylor.smock]

The primary situation was what I described, where the image missing the timestamp was outside of the download area (so, OSM area or viewport, depending upon settings).

The only way for other images to be missing the data would be if there was a failure somewhere communicating with the Mapillary servers.

In either case, I now detect that an image doesn't have expected information (e.g., captured at), and retrieve the information as needed. This isn't the most efficient method, but it does work.

[richlv]

Got it, thank you. I guess multiple OSM data downloads and clocking on various Mapillary images could result in that.
Eagerly looking forward to the new plugin version :)