Satellites auto detect buildings in OpenStreetMap
This has been heating up. Here's the seminal paper that kicked off the Cambrian Explosion: <a href="https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/Mnih_Volodymyr_PhD_Thesis.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/Mnih_Volodymyr_PhD_Th...</a><p>And I saw two presentations about this at State of the Map US.<p>* Anand Thakker of Development Seed had a cool live demo: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BftllmqXSpA&list=PLqjPa29lMiE3eR-gK80irr3xdUiRbIMeg&index=2" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BftllmqXSpA&list=PLqjPa29lMi...</a><p>* Facebook mapped a bunch of roads in Egypt, and has an ongoing effort. Facebook apparently didn't allow their's to be taped.<p>I have a similar project called DeepOSM: <a href="https://github.com/trailbehind/deeposm" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/trailbehind/deeposm</a><p>There is starting to be a conversation in the OSM community about allowing robot edits into the map, I'm definitely pro robot. Google has been doing it for years. Mike Migurski touched off debate on the OSM Slack and blog comments with his post: <a href="http://mike.teczno.com/notes/openstreetmap-at-a-crossroads.html" rel="nofollow">http://mike.teczno.com/notes/openstreetmap-at-a-crossroads.h...</a> (added this link after maxerickson's comment reminded me what touched of the debate).<p><a href="http://terrapattern.com" rel="nofollow">http://terrapattern.com</a> is also a related project from some CMU people.