Hi, I've also found some academic papers about that, but it's too mathematics 
for me, I forward it if someone is interested:  
http://ijcsi.org/papers/IJCSI-8-3-2-250-257.pdf  
http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXIV/part3/papers/paper045.pdf  
https://utd.edu/~briggs/personal/ICGIS09_LiBriggs.pdf    Best regards, Sérgio 
(OSMuser:smaprs) [email protected]
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: FW: road extraction from satellite image
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:21:02 -0300




Hi, I'm not a developer, just an active contributor mostly on very undermapped 
territories.  Do you know if there is an open software/plugin that can assist 
road extraction (vectorising) from hi-res satellite image to OSM (or even that 
can extract roads outside OSM that may import to OSM)?  I've been tracing 
almost 10.000 roads manually since the beggining of my contributions, and 
thought if there is some way more technological that could save mapper's work 
for visually assisting on road alignment and classification.  I mean: if a 
software could provide first an estimative of road tracing as accurate as 
possible, I could reserve my work for checking and adjusting its alignment 
where/if it doesn't fit well. Just as I do for manual tracing, since it could 
be easier and faster to let me run over a vectorised road previously provided 
by a software more to check in image alignment and doing classification, and 
improving where it would be necessary (saving contributors work for accuracy 
control more than zooming in-out + positioning + clicking for every node all 
manually. For example, I've seen for long that many roads  in OSM in country 
side of Brazil (where I mostly map) imported by other users years ago from maps 
of official sources are very out of alignment and thus useless, so that I have 
to align or redo it as whole, so that if a software can vectorise roads could 
be much more useful, even if it lefts some impreciosions that I could adjust 
manually in sequence).   I've read that Microsoft did something for road 
detection in Bing:  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing_road_detect_API.  
I've  downloaded the JOSM plugin provided there and tried to install it, but 
JOSM can't detect it in the computer. Is that plugin availlable for JOSM? Is 
there any other open software that can do something like that?  Thank you for 
any light.  Sérgio (OSMuser:smaprs) [email protected]

                                                                                
                                                                                
  
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