[Talk-GB] Adding missing roads using Facebook detections

[Andy Townsend]

In each case nothing will happen unless changesets with bad edits are 
commented on.  Given that the messages here last month didn't get a 
reply from Amazon I'm pretty sure that Amazon's mappers or their 
handlers don't read talk-gb.  Of course - this is a perfect opportunity 
for them to prove me wrong!

If there's no reply on changeset comments report the mappers concerned 
to the DWG so that we can "remind" them to reply to community comments.

Like Chris, I've been generally impressed by the quality of Amazon 
Logistics edits, at least compared to other paid mappers around the 
world, but there are real problems with the "auto detect layer" used for 
these "AI" edits - it's quite badly offset and the original imagery on 
which the edge detection was made is I think no longer available making 
QA difficult.

Best Regards,

Andy (from the DWG)

On 03/05/2020 16:27, Andrew Hain wrote:

> Also seen: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/84550786
>
> --
> Andrew
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Chris Fleming <me at chrisfleming.org>
> *Sent:* 03 April 2020 14:06
> *To:* Guthula, Jothirnadh <jguthula at amazon.com>
> *Cc:* talk-gb at openstreetmap.org <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Adding missing roads using Facebook detections
> I've spotted some edits using this, such as:
>
> https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=82807938&relations=true
>
> After a ropey start, in general I've been quite impressed by Amazon's 
> edits, but this one looks quite ropey, the service road drawn in is 
> very ropey and it looks like you've missed the connection back to the 
> main road (shown in OS Openview), in addition I don't think that 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/785788619 loops back on itself, or 
> at least I wouldn't draw that conclusion from imagery?
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 10:02, Guthula, Jothirnadh via Talk-GB 
> <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi UK OSM community,
>
>     As you might already know, Facebook released its AI-based
>     detections publicly on 08/09/2019
>     (https://github.com/facebookmicrosites/Open-Mapping-At-Facebook/wiki/Available-Countries).
>     With a team of mappers @Amazon we are planning to improve missing
>     roads in UK using Facebook detections as a source. Please let us
>     know if you have any ongoing projects using this data source.
>     While adding missing roads, we will be adding all the associated
>     access tags as per available on-ground resources. Our team will
>     edit roads manually using a normal iD editor and satellite
>     imageries available with FB detections as a background source and
>     will not use RapidID editor or JOSM. Also changeset comments will
>     be addressed by our team on top priority.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Jothirnadh
>
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