+∞ Wojciech Myrda On Mar 22, 2017 6:34 AM, "Wojciech Myrda" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2017-03-22 09:59, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > >> Are the human mappers in your team "on the ground " in Thailand? Do they >> know the country, have they been/do they live there? It's clear that a >> small team of 14 people will not know all the country in detail, but >> knowing the general conditions/setting still is helping a lot when judging >> the outcome of your ai tracing. >> > Out of all the questions regarding the import I must say this is most > surprising one. With that one statement you undervalue all the work that > has been done by the thousands of mappers throughout the years with number > of HOT initiatives. Most of the people taking part in those efforts never > been to the places like Nepal and relayed only on the DG images to help out > rescue efforts. Work that FB did is just as good as all those efforts with > the only difference that machine program prepares the preliminary data set > to be than verified by the group of people for actual correctness. If we > are proud of the HOT efforts which may introduce number of errors as they > are done in haste why would we not accept more carefully prepared work > initially based on the same source? > > IMHO more data is always better than less even if it is not 100% acuate > although I agree connecting roads just because they are in close proximity > is problematic and may be wrong. However if there one person among us whom > in the forest didn't at least the once place a path of which present > existence they where not entirely sure let them be the first one to throw > the rock. > > Regards, > -- > Wojciech Myrda > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wmyrda/ > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > >
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