[Talk-GB] Map with AI comes to the UK

[Philip Barnes]

On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 15:02 +0000, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> Thanks Jerry.
> 
> I'd also subsequently discovered the data dump but had not yet got
> around to looking at it. What are you using here to view and work
> with the data? Is QGIS and 6GB RAM sufficient? 
> 
> I would be interested in Warwickshire if you can extract that.
> 
> And yes, we probably are not expecting much for the UK given how well
> we already have most roads mapped. It's a shame it only shows missing
> roads as I suspect it has better geometry of some rural roads in
> poorly mapped areas than us - I still find jagged roads with
> source=npe.
> 
> Nevertheless, the AI stuff is an interesting one to keep an eye on.
> If improvements can be made and additional datasets incorporated, it
> could become a significant aid in the future. For example I wonder if
> it could be good at building detections when combined with other data
> such as LiDAR height data. There is also the prospect of using AI to
> help find solar panels.
> 
As Jerry says there is a lot of detection of tramlines in arable fields
but I am also seeing detection of already mapped features such as
runways and railways which I would expect to be filtered out.

Phil (trigpoint)
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