[OSM-talk] AI detecting of buildings Idle thoughts

[Warin]

On 16/08/18 17:56, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 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...
>

Sigh.

I suppose if you want to see blank areas of the map you'll have to look 
for the deserts .. (including the polar caps). Oh .. and oceans too.


As that particular mapper has local knowledge on their side I'd not 
challenge them.

Though a change set of close to 2,000 ways does look a bit large.