Re: [OSM-talk] AI With Satellite Images for OpenStreetMap

2018-02-10 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El 10 feb. 2018, a la(s) 17:52, john whelan escribió: > My personal reaction is this is frightening. > > Already we have buildings mapped twice and unless the import is done very > very carefully I can see problems ahead. That's why we have an import policy. Most of the problems I have seen wi

Re: [OSM-talk] AI With Satellite Images for OpenStreetMap

2018-02-10 Thread john whelan
My personal reaction is this is frightening. Already we have buildings mapped twice and unless the import is done very very carefully I can see problems ahead. AI and imagery isn't perfect. Throw in LiDAR or different frequency imagery and it might get a little more accurate. Still having said

[OSM-talk] AI With Satellite Images for OpenStreetMap

2018-02-10 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi, Microsoft this week granted permission to use the Bing satellite images for nonprofit AI projects that are contributing to OSM. Mapbox has indicated that they are also on board (with some conditions/restrictions). I think this pretty big deal for OSM. If you are interested in this kind of stu