Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector

2011-02-06 Thread Ido Omer
ces are well aligned/registered (which is not a trivial problem). -Original Message- From: dipie...@gmail.com [mailto:dipie...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 12:15 PM To: Ido Omer Cc: Steve Bennett; talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) r

Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector

2011-02-06 Thread Ido Omer
Hi Steve, What we currently exposed is a web service that given two points finds the best road between them (or at least what it considers as best, which can be really bad sometimes) We are not stopping people from using this service in their editors and achieve part of the functionality you su

Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector

2011-02-06 Thread Ido Omer
detector A few remarks again below: On February 5, 2011 06:57:42 pm Ido Omer wrote: > Hi Elizabeth, > > Like in any interesting problem, we knew we will not be able to come > up with a general solution for all roads under any condition. We > assume most people are mapping asp

Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector

2011-02-05 Thread Ido Omer
that. Ido -Original Message- From: dipie...@gmail.com [mailto:dipie...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 6:47 PM To: Ido Omer Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Ido Omer wrote: > I am a

Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector

2011-02-05 Thread Ido Omer
Hi Elizabeth, Like in any interesting problem, we knew we will not be able to come up with a general solution for all roads under any condition. We assume most people are mapping asphalt/concrete roads and we decided to focus our efforts there. Eve there our solution is far from being perfect, b

Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector

2011-02-05 Thread Ido Omer
ssage- From: Thibault North [mailto:thibault.no...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Thibault North Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 8:22 AM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Cc: Ido Omer Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector Hi Ido, Could we have more information about how the road detector works? I

Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector

2011-02-05 Thread Ido Omer
@openstreetmap.org; Ido Omer Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector Hello, a couple quick ideas you might have already considered: - Optional parameters in the API to provide additional information for the algorithm, for example: ...&roadcolorsample= (the user has previously sampled the road colo

[OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector

2011-02-04 Thread Ido Omer
Hi Guys, I am a researcher at Microsoft and I am currently working on the road detector. I joined a bit late and can't post answers in the existing road detector thread, but I might be able to provide some additional info regarding the road detector. It is *FAR* from being perfect, but in our ex