[OSM-newbies] Automatic street rendering

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 20:13:00 GMT 2009


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Xan <dxpublica at telefonica.net> wrote:
> I'm new in openstreetmap. First of all, thanks for the project. ;-)
> I have a doubt: is it possible to render streets automatically? That is,
> that computers analize yahoo satellites images and (after analyze
> images) suggests the contourn of the streets.
> If it's possible, the users only has to correct typos (if there are) and
> put information (type of street, monuments, etc.). Do you think it's
> something for doing that or if it's planned.

That's certainly very interesting but I don't think there's anything
like that for OSM. The closest thing we have is the lakewalker plugin
for JOSM, and that's pretty far away.




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