[Talk-GB] planned Mapillary initiative on solar panel pics

[Dan S]

Op ma 22 feb. 2021 om 11:09 schreef Gareth L <o.i at live.co.uk>:
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> > (We could simply trawl through thousands of already-existing
> > Mapillary photos, but that's easier said than done, I've tried it...
> > needle+haystack.)
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> I guess mapillary have not yet got their machine learning to identify them reliably yet? Have you got a point of contact with anyone at mapillary?
>
> This sounds interesting. Pic4review uses mapillary and other sources for refining tags and is very useful. It’s less great at adding new items though.
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> Single photos likely won’t have a bearing information which might be tricky if there’s ambiguity.
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> Definitely sounds worthwhile to me.
>
> Gareth

Thanks for the feedback. I haven't tried Pic4review before - very
interesting - might be useful in this project, at least for improving
existing items.

Machine learning: Yes, I've been in touch with a Mapillary person
about it (who I met at SotM :). They haven't prioritised machine
learning to detect solar panels, but if we get a good number of solar
panels tagged in their app, that would create enough training data for
them to at least test if it's feasible. I haven't been in touch with
them for a while though, since I think they got a bit distracted
during the Facebook acquisition!

Best
Dan


> > On 22 Feb 2021, at 09:12, Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We could simply trawl through thousands of already-existing
> > Mapillary photos, but that's easier said than done, I've tried it...
> > needle+haystack.)