On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Stefan de Konink <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt Amos wrote: >> >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Stefan de Konink <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Matt Amos wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> But please keep in mind that SIFT will *not* work for the typical >>>>>> streetsign because SIFT looks for features, which are typically not >>>>>> present in the 'easy to understand' signs (because they use colours). >>>> >>>> wouldn't SIFT (or variants thereof) work really well against a >>>> database of exemplars, i.e: pictures of existing street signs, >>>> isolated letters from the font used for street signage? >>> >>> http://sift.openstreetphoto.org/templates/C1.png >>> >>> This thing is totally 'unsiftable'. >> >> wouldn't there usually be something inside the circle? > > In Dutch this is the sign: go away we don't want you here on anything. > Something in there would mean: go away we don't want you here on > bike/car/van etc. > > > Stefan >
ah, apparently it means the same thing in the UK[1]. clearly its a good thing i never passed my driving test ;-) cheers, matt [1] http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/tss/trafficsigns.pdf _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
