Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our buildings

2013-01-09 Thread Gregory
Why do you want to see outlines autogenerated from aerial imagery, you could just look at the aerial imagery? Going out and getting the address/use details and then adding that to a building outline, now that's helpful added data that you can't get from automation. On 7 January 2013 03:14, Jeff

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our buildings

2013-01-09 Thread Greg Troxel
Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com writes: Why do you want to see outlines autogenerated from aerial imagery, you could just look at the aerial imagery? That's not true. For example, when converting to garmin format, buildings render with very few bits, and let you know developed vs

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our buildings

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Not necessarily. Urban blind people probably want to know where there's likely to be a wall. On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com writes: Why do you want to see outlines autogenerated from aerial imagery, you could just

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our buildings

2013-01-06 Thread Nathan Mixter
I'm not sure if this link has been posted before, but for those wondering how Google got their new buildings, there is a link at PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411232,00.asp. Apparently they recently uploaded 25M buildings done through an automated image recognition software.

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our buildings

2013-01-06 Thread Paul Norman
On 2013-01-06, at 7:50 PM, Nathan Mixter nmix...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if OSM could do the same thing. Could we buy as a group a program like Feature Analyst, eCognition or Imagine Objective and add buildings that way? We could combine the buildings with any existing address

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our buildings

2013-01-06 Thread Dave F.
I understand what why you're saying this, Nathan, but remember these images are all, relatively, out of date. I would rather that gaps were left to be filled with what's is actually on the ground rather than what was there a few years ago. I take pride that my city has newest buildings

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our buildings

2013-01-06 Thread Jeff Meyer
Dave - What is the collection date of the imagery used? I couldn't find reference to it. What would be the measure of relatively out of date? Outside of newly developed areas, even imagery that is 5 years old could reasonably be expected to be ~95% accurate over most of the country. (Based on