[HOT] What I'd like for next Christmas is...

2017-01-05 Thread john whelan
Some sort of notification of when a tile is completed on a selected project. Currently I open up four projects each day and check for completed tiles so I can validate them. Three are moving very slowly currently, it can be a couple of weeks before another batch of tiles gets done. Problem is

Re: [HOT] Building Detection using Machine Learning

2017-01-05 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Stefan Keller wrote: >But even if would be 99.8 percent it's important for OSM > that a human integrates the data into the database. Just for the record, I agree with this totally. I only see a scenario where any automatically identified

Re: [HOT] Building Detection using Machine Learning

2017-01-05 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Philip On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Philip Hunt wrote: > I attended my first Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) mapping event a few > months ago > and was interested to see how successful machine learning would be at > detecting buildings in > satellite images.

Re: [HOT] Building Detection using Machine Learning

2017-01-05 Thread Denis Carriere
I agree with Rory with the rotated buildings. However, these building outlines would be great to detect missing buildings within an area. It's usually very hard to find "missing" buildings when your HOT Tasking Manager is at 100% completed. This workflow/tool can definitely be used in the

Re: [HOT] Building Detection using Machine Learning

2017-01-05 Thread Rory McCann
You've noticed how your algoritm isn't able to get properly rotated buildings. And this might be an advantage! All buildings being non-rotated is *obviously* incorrect, so people aren't gonna want to import them, they'll realise that they have to have a human to review/correct it. Perhaps you

[HOT] Final HOT Summit 2016 videos now available!

2017-01-05 Thread Nate Smith
Hello HOTOSM Community - Happy 2017! All HOT Summit 2016 videos are now online. You can find all the videos on the HOT Summit 2016 playlist on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb9506_-6FMFoS6_LqOFS-tCD__1rpmKN Thanks for everyone’s patience as we received the final

[HOT] 2 min video on value of maps to help end FGM in Tanzania

2017-01-05 Thread Janet Chapman
Thank you to everyone that has helped with projects 1788 and 2261. There is a great video posted on AJ+ about our work here https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/873491619459013/ Thanks, Janet AJ+ - These volunteers are mapping rural Tanzania to help... |