[OSM-talk] AI detecting of buildings Idle thoughts

Christoph Hormann osm at imagico.de
Thu Aug 16 07:56:12 UTC 2018


On Thursday 16 August 2018, john whelan wrote:
> Could this be used to detect villages and towns which have not yet
> been mapped.
>
> If something could drop some sort of marker where it thinks a cluster
> of buildings are then we could use overpass to pull them into JOSM
> and map them as places, landuse=residential, village or whatever.

As you might already imagine reality is way ahead of you - for example 
someone has recently been dumping a whole bunch of garbage exactly like 
this in eastern Congo:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/61401087
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/614459980

From a purely technical point of view if it wasn't littering OSM this 
would just be droll.

Verifiability my ass...

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Christoph Hormann
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