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

[James]

+∞ Wojciech Myrda

On Mar 22, 2017 6:34 AM, "Wojciech Myrda" <wmyrda at auticon.pl> wrote:

> On 2017-03-22 09:59, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>> Are the human mappers in your team "on the ground " in Thailand? Do they
>> know the country, have they been/do they live there? It's clear that a
>> small team of 14 people will not know all the country in detail, but
>> knowing the general conditions/setting still is helping a lot when judging
>> the outcome of your ai tracing.
>>
> Out of all the questions regarding the import I must say this is most
> surprising one. With that one statement you undervalue all the work that
> has been done by the thousands of mappers throughout the years with number
> of HOT initiatives. Most of the people taking part in those efforts never
> been to the places like Nepal and relayed only on the DG images to help out
> rescue efforts. Work that FB did is just as good as all those efforts with
> the only difference that machine program prepares the preliminary data set
> to be than verified by the group of people for actual correctness. If we
> are proud of the HOT efforts which may introduce number of errors as they
> are done in haste why would we not accept more carefully prepared work
> initially based on the same source?
>
> IMHO more data is always better than less even if it is not 100% acuate
> although I agree connecting roads just because they are in close proximity
> is problematic and may be wrong. However if there one person among us whom
> in the forest didn't at least the once place a path of which present
> existence they where not entirely sure let them be the first one to throw
> the rock.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Wojciech Myrda
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wmyrda/
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