[HOT] Terrapattern: query-by-example for satellite imagery

[Paul Uithol]

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.
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> 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”.
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