El 10 feb. 2018, a la(s) 17:52, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> escribió:

> My personal reaction is this is frightening.
> 
> Already we have buildings mapped twice and unless the import is done very 
> very carefully I can see problems ahead.

That's why we have an import policy. Most of the problems I have seen with 
imports would be prevented if people actually followed it.

> AI and imagery isn't perfect.  Throw in LiDAR or different frequency imagery 
> and it might get a little more accurate.  Still having said that there seems 
> to be a large number of Buildings mapped in Africa at Mapathons that seem to 
> be of poor quality and if it was better than that the over all data quality 
> might improve.
> 
> What it does do is identify an area of concern.  In Canada my understanding 
> is some sort of automated or semi automated building outline mapping is being 
> done by NRC and will be released shortly under an Open Data license that has 
> been approved by the LWG.  These I might trust, an experimental algorithm on 
> less than perfect imagery I might be more wary of.  
> 
> Cheerio John
> 
>> On 10 February 2018 at 15:34, Jason Remillard <remillard.ja...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Microsoft this week granted permission to use the Bing satellite images for 
>> nonprofit AI projects that are contributing to OSM. Mapbox has indicated 
>> that they are also on board  (with some conditions/restrictions). I think 
>> this pretty big deal for OSM. If you are interested in this kind of stuff, I 
>> wrote a longish diary entry about what it might mean.
>> 
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jremillard/diary/43294
>> 
>> Jason
>> 
>> 
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