[Imports] Facebook's AI-Assisted Road Tracing for OSM

[Frederik Ramm]

Denis,

On 15.03.2017 16:35, Denis Carriere wrote:
> The imagery that DigitalGlobe provides is used for computational
> purposes and won't be distributed for free, the imagery data used to
> create this data isn't usable for viewing purposes (it's for computers
> to do machine learning).

Do you work for/with Facebook or Digital Globe (because you sound as if
you know details about the process) or are you taking this from the
information that has been released?

> As for clouds, you can easily use multiple imagery collection dates for
> the same area, this is is offered by DG 

Again, do you have knowledge about this service by DG being used in the
process discussed here or are you guessing?

> As for de-conflicting existing roads, from what I've seen in the sample
> dataset this is WAY better than what you could expect from even an
> experienced OSM mapper.

Can you explain this a bit more, perhaps pointing to a specific example
and explaining how an experienced OSM mapper would have done it "WAY worse"?

> Why are you even questioning the experience of the OSM Facebook
> importers when yourself wasn't even able to determine the difference
> between the imported data and the existing OSM data.

I think you're getting carried away here. Even if Christoph were an
inexperienced newcomer - which he isn't and you know that - he would,
like any other community member, still be entitled to ask questions.

Bye
Frederik

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