It is not, at least not at this time. For example, I tried finding airports by clicking on a plane. It returns some planes and a lot of asphalt. It might however be useful to quickly identify a very rough outline of built up land or roads. In my case: airports did show up as hotspots. So it might be useful to direct mapping activity.
2016-05-26 16:51 GMT+02:00 Paul Uithol <[email protected]>: > That sounds quite interesting - I'm wondering if it could be accurate > enough to use as a tool for automatically tracing/classifying/tagging > features based on imagery in some scenarios? I imagine the error rate would > be quite a lot higher than with proper mapping, but in some situations > having a fast initial assessment (before focusing on accuracy) is useful? > > > On 26-05-2016 12:57, Martin Dittus wrote: > > Made the rounds on social media yesterday, I imagine a few of you have > already seen it.http://www.terrapattern.com/ > > It’s a visual search for aerial imagery — "a prototype for helping people > quickly scan extremely large geographical areas for specific visual > features”. You mark a desired feature, it finds all other occurrences. > > Their case studies mention OSM as a source data set, but they don’t yet > appear to be talking to anyone at HOT? "Terrapattern was only possible due to > the astonishing crowdsourced mapping effort of the OpenStreetMap project, > which has generously categorized large parts of the world with its Nominatim > taxonomy”. > > m. > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing > [email protected]https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- Joost @ Openstreetmap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/>
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