Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

2019-08-12 Thread Michael Collinson
I see that Maning has already replied, but I would like to emphasise that the Philippine OSM community is a very mature example of informal but cohesive collaborative work at a national and regional level with a long history of working with other organisations, such as universities and local

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

2019-08-12 Thread maning sambale
Hi y'all, Putting on record that I was part of those who requested FB to generate road detection for the Philippines there are a few more people involved. I defer to these individuals if they want to put forward their names. While I agree that a few people does not necessarily represent the

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

2019-08-12 Thread Peter Barth
Hi Eugene, Eugene Alvin Villar schrieb: > Unfortunately, I cannot provide you with a link since we communicated with > Facebook's OSM team privately. This is completely our own initiative and > was not initiated from Facebook's side. who is this "we"/"our", how many people were directly involved

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

2019-08-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Marc, On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 7:36 PM marc marc wrote: > could you share a link that shows that it is the local community that > solicited facebook as the wiki page claims and not facebook that invents > a collaboration to "whashing" their wishs ? given the frequent issues > (about both the

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

2019-08-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Frederik, On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 5:55 PM Frederik Ramm wrote: > do I understand correctly that you and your local partners aim to > recruit new mappers to OSM, who will not learn the "old fashioned" > workflow of tracing stuff from imagery by hand, but be mainly taught to > work with

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

2019-08-10 Thread marc marc
Hello, > The community of OSM mappers in the Philippines could you share a link that shows that it is the local community that solicited facebook as the wiki page claims and not facebook that invents a collaboration to "whashing" their wishs ? given the frequent issues (about both the

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

2019-08-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Eugene, do I understand correctly that you and your local partners aim to recruit new mappers to OSM, who will not learn the "old fashioned" workflow of tracing stuff from imagery by hand, but be mainly taught to work with pre-processed Facebook road data? How will you ensure that your partners

[OSM-talk] Announcing the Tabang-AI initiative

2019-08-10 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello! The community of OSM mappers in the Philippines are pleased to announce an initiative to use AI or machine learning (ML)-derived data to help improve the coverage of OpenStreetMap in the Philippines and we are calling it Tabang-AI. This is word play on the Cebuano word *tábangay* which