[OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

[Stefan de Konink]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Steve Coast wrote:

> http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2011/02/03/automatic
> ally-detect-roads-with-bing-aerial-imagery.aspx

After toying with markov models and viterbi for image tracing maybe we 
could do the same for _all_ GPX tracks that OpenStreetMap has stored.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapgenerator


The integration of both would allow automatic map generation, where 
the user only lacks the streetnames. Since streetname recognition was a 
project in OSM/Summer of Code 2009, this problem is also solved:

http://code.google.com/p/signfinder/


Lets not stop with Youtube movies...


Stefan