I don’t know if SCAN considered obtaining V-chip encoding, which would’ve cost close to $2k that year for encoding equipment; perhaps their license forbade such encoding.
1000 is quite the hyperbole.
If you’re asking about more imagery coverage, Mapillary has a lot. The wiki has a list of street-level imagery articles.
OpenStreetMap is more about the map database, so any imagery association tends to be loose, and is more for use as a useable source for ground truth.
Have you checked out Every Door?
StreetComplete is intended for local, on-the-ground surveying only. Editing remotely is not supported, and will result in problems.
(I’m not sure whether you’re editing remotely vs reminiscing during in-person visits, phrasing is slightly ambiguous.)
Au contraire! With a three character month, period separation isn’t needed, and the date is shorter. (Admittedly there’s likely to be a language translation issue, depending on audience.)