Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Google awarded patent on automatic correction of road geometry from imagery

2014-06-05 Thread Richard Weait
Didn't Steve C publish an automated tool to create road geometry from aerial imagery when he was at Microsoft? ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

[OSM-legal-talk] Google awarded patent on automatic correction of road geometry from imagery

2014-06-04 Thread Michael Collinson
This comes to me via Simon Poole, so the OSMF board is aware. http://apb.directionsmag.com/entry/google-patent-updating-map-data-using-satellite-imagery/402398?utm_source=dlvr.itutm_medium=tumblr