[OSM-talk] protocol for adding buildings using aerial imagery?

Milo van der Linden milo at dogodigi.net
Tue Dec 28 09:02:12 GMT 2010


note to self: take course to learn how to be funny in english.


2010/12/28 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Milo van der Linden <milo at dogodigi.net> wrote:
>> The first person that automates tracing buildings from yahoo images on
>> Aruba will be slapped by me!
>>
>> Besides regulare displacement, the entire imagery is off by 10~100m ,
>> way to clouded and low res. So please, please, please do not start
>> some global bot that will place buildings all over..
>
> Frederik suggested, possibly, one day, in the distant future, a tool
> in an *editor* to allow *people* to estimate height using
> displacement.
>
> What's with the over-the-top knee-jerk reactions? Let's take a group chill pill.
>
> Steve
>



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