and that makes a lot of sense. Thanks John
On 21 December 2016 at 19:58, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/22/2016 01:10 AM, john whelan wrote: > > Do we have any guidelines in the wiki etc? > > Nothing specific, no. > > Automated editing and/or import guidelines would apply to any such > process and I would ask everyone who overhears discussions about > "uploading" machine-detected data to OSM to point this out to those > discussing. We've already had to revert a couple hundred thousand such > edits (roads though, not buildings). > > If, OTOH, an editor plugin were to help the mapper trace buildings that > the mapper identifies or at least individually verifies, that would > probably be ok, at least until HOT trains an army of monkeys with > typewriters, er keyboards, to rubber-stamp everything the algorithm puts > out ;) > > More generally speaking, in my opinion the human-centered aspect of > mapping is a key property that sets us apart from other map databases. > You can safely assume that any algorithm we can run to detect buildings, > Google can run 1000 times faster and with a fraction of the error rate, > leading to 1000 times more and 10 times better data of that kind than we > can accumulate. This is not a field in which we can, or should attempt > to, compete. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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