images-to-osm
AI
computer vision mapping
SHOW HN2018
94points
10comments
#465of 2,155 in 2018
Top 22%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.
Idea: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive and useful for OSM mappers
From 2 comments
This is impressive. I wonder if a similar technique could be used to identify parking lots. The U.S. seems to have an over abundance of parking lots, so it would be cool to back…
francisofascii on HNThis is awesome and exactly the kind of thing that can give the OSM Armchair Mappers some very accurate superpowers. It'd be great to see this fed into the OSM Tasking Manager…
riordan on HN
Objections
Parking lot import would be too large for OSM community
From 1 comment
Thanks! It would probably work well for parking lots, but there are a horrifying number of them. I don’t think the OSM community would tolerate such a large import.
jasonremillard on HN
Basketball courts not visible in aerial imagery
From 1 comment
I mapped quite a bit of Morocco while traveling through there recently. Interestingly, I find that a lot of sports fields in villages are for both football and basketball, but…
Mediterraneo10 on HN
Requests
Apply the technique to parking lots
From 1 comment
This is impressive. I wonder if a similar technique could be used to identify parking lots. The U.S. seems to have an over abundance of parking lots, so it would be cool to back…
francisofascii on HN
Feed output into MapRoulette or Tasking Manager for validation
From 1 comment
This is awesome and exactly the kind of thing that can give the OSM Armchair Mappers some very accurate superpowers. It'd be great to see this fed into the OSM Tasking Manager…
riordan on HN
Questions
What issues were encountered implementing Mask R-CNN and training
From 1 comment
Very interesting! I recently finished reading the paper on Mask R-CNN and find it's a very neat addition to the R-CNN family. What are some of the issues that you encountered…
edshiro on HN
Alternatives named
DeepOSM
From 1 comment
https://github.com/trailbehind/DeepOSM https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11808639
toomuchtodo on HN