[OSM-newbies] Automatic street rendering

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Xan <dxpublica at telefonica.net> wrote:
> En/na Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ha escrit:
>> 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.
>>
> How to runs it? I can't find information.

You install JOSM and then the lakewalker plugin through the preferences dialog.

It won't help you at all with tracing streets, it's for tracing bodies
of water from Landsat imagery. I named it as the only example I know
of where we're doing any sort of semi-automatic editing based on
aerial imagery.