Perhaps would be a good idea to set up a wiki page for the signs with the colors and a sample photo?
Here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil they're a rectangle with the street name in white on blue, and a blue on white stripe with the first and last building numbers of the block and the street's postcode (which are not like zip codes, they're different for every single street). Cheers 2009/8/19 Tijs Zwinkels <[email protected]> > Preliminary, but at least we can conclude that the colors are diverse, and > that black-on-white is rather common. > > I hope to be able to detect and read these eventually, but I'll have to > come up with something better than the current color-histogram matching > technique. :) > > - Tijs > > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Teemu Koskinen > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:26:29 +0300, Erik Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Since this version can't be trained to handle white background signs, >>> I wonder what color are streetname signs around the world? >>> >>> Netherlands white on blue >>> Sweden black on white >>> >>> >> In Finland: Black on white >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Arlindo Saraiva Pereira Jr. Bacharelando em Sistemas de Informação - UNIRIO - uniriotec.br Consultor de Software Livre da Uniriotec Consultoria - uniriotec.com Acadêmico: [email protected] Profissional: [email protected] Geral: [email protected] Tel.: +5521 92504072 Jabber/Google Talk: [email protected] Skype: nighto_sumomo Chave pública: BD065DEC
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