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Re: Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision

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Post by banana_dick_3 »

mtmail wrote: post #31
qwertox wrote: post #29

Google would not allow this, but Mapbox seems to be OK with this, if it is used for non-commercial purposes or OSM, and only if their satellite data is used (not their vector data): 1.6. No Tracing, Deriving, or Extracting. Customer shall not trace or otherwise derive or extract content, data and/or information from the Service Offerings except that Customer may use Studio or third-party software to trace Mapbox Maps…

Bing also allows OpenStreetMap mappers to use their aerial imagery for tracing. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing_Maps#Aerial_imagery

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Re: Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision

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Post by banana_dick_4 »

orbital-decay wrote: post #8

Experiencing automated mapping first-hand makes me extremely wary of it. I've travelled across South America on a motorcycle, and OSM has a large amount of edits there that look automated (particularly in Brazil), making it barely usable in certain places. I'm not even talking about rural roads but also fairly large cities.

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Re: Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision

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Post by banana_dick_4 »

daavoo wrote: post #5
nativeit wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an amazing set of resources, thanks for sharing. I have been tinkering with QGIS, and signed up for a slew of public/private satellite imagery APIs to bring in data to play with. The EU’s space agency has a lot of really good data sources with fully open access (no user accounts necessary). I am looking forward to working with this new collection of ML-specific tools.

> really good data sources with fully open access (no user accounts necessary) Ola! I am the author of the repo, worked in satellite projects for the Galician goverment some years ago. You don't need an account to download the data from OSM (you do need to contribute back, which makes sense IMO). You don't need an account to download tiles from some publicly available sources (i.e. https://pnoa.ign.es/ in Spain) but…

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Re: Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision

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Post by banana_dick_4 »

qwertox wrote: post #29

Google would not allow this, but Mapbox seems to be OK with this, if it is used for non-commercial purposes or OSM, and only if their satellite data is used (not their vector data): 1.6. No Tracing, Deriving, or Extracting. Customer shall not trace or otherwise derive or extract content, data and/or information from the Service Offerings except that Customer may use Studio or third-party software to trace Mapbox Maps…

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Re: Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision

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Post by banana_dick_4 »

mtmail wrote: post #31
qwertox wrote: post #29

Google would not allow this, but Mapbox seems to be OK with this, if it is used for non-commercial purposes or OSM, and only if their satellite data is used (not their vector data): 1.6. No Tracing, Deriving, or Extracting. Customer shall not trace or otherwise derive or extract content, data and/or information from the Service Offerings except that Customer may use Studio or third-party software to trace Mapbox Maps…

Bing also allows OpenStreetMap mappers to use their aerial imagery for tracing. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing_Maps#Aerial_imagery

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Re: Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision

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Post by banana_dick_5 »

stereo wrote: post #4

Hi from the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Please don't add AI-detected features directly to the database. The algorithms have problems with false positives, and with mapping straight or rectangular objects as wobbly, as shown in the second-to-last screenshot. As a helper to detect missing features, this is a precious tool. But we still need human intervention to make sure the detected objects are drawn correctly. See als…

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Re: Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision

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Post by banana_dick_5 »

orbital-decay wrote: post #8

Experiencing automated mapping first-hand makes me extremely wary of it. I've travelled across South America on a motorcycle, and OSM has a large amount of edits there that look automated (particularly in Brazil), making it barely usable in certain places. I'm not even talking about rural roads but also fairly large cities.

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