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mozilla-ai / osm-ai-helper

osm-ai-helper

Blueprint by Mozilla.ai for mapping features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision

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96GitHub stars
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Blueprint by Mozilla.ai for mapping features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision

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I don't understand the 'human verification' aspect. Your docs show a simple image where the user can choose to keep a new object or not. [0] Afterwards it says: "The ones you chose to keep will be uploaded to OpenStreetMap using upload_osm.". This is uploading features automatically. The fact that it asks 'are you sure' is just silly. We all know if humans have to click yes 90% of the time, and no 10% of the time, they'll miss a lot of no's. The image also proofs that: - You don't see any polygons properly. You just see a an image of where the pool is. Already on the image I can see that if the polygons align to that image, it will be a total mess. - You don't see any polygons further away from the object. Both these points are in stereo's reply that the resulted data was a mess. Please consider pulling the project. This will generate a l
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ot of data that volunteers will have to check and revert. [0] https://github.com/mozilla-ai/osm-ai-helper/blob/main/docs/s...
In Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision
Hi, thanks for the feedback. I have disabled the hosted demo for now, and will remove the uploading part from the code in favor of showing an URL that will open the editor at the location. If its of any help, you can find any contributed polygon with the tag `created_by=https://github.com/mozilla-ai/osm-ai-helper`. Feel free to remove all of them (or I can do it myself once I access a PC). I will be happy to continue the discussion on what is a good prediction or not. I have mapped a lot of swimming pools myself and edited and removed a lot of (presumably) human contributed polygons that looked worse (too my eyes) than the predictions I approved to be uploaded.
In Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision

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